Manuscripts
Joseph L. Folsom leases of land in San Francisco
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Joseph L. Folsom lease of San Francisco land
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This document details the lease agreement between Anna Sparks and See Soong Tong for a lot of land in San Francisco, California. Printed form, filled in and signed.
mssHM 19068
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Joseph L. Folsom letter to David Rogers
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Folsom writes of an ongoing legal matter with some intentional vagueness, fearing that his letter may be intercepted.
mssHM 19070
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Joseph Libbey Folsom letter to Peter Warren Van Winkle
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Folsom writes he is traveling to California, and of other various business details regarding property in San Francisco, California. With crosshatched writing on first page.
mssHM 19074
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Accounts of the estate of Joseph Libbey Folsom
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This manuscript is an account of the estate of Joseph Libbey Folsom, and American military officer and real estate investor who died in the mid-19th century, around the year 1856. It is largely a list of Folsom's assets and their approximate value. Halleck is acting as executor, along with Archibald Peachy and Peter Warren Van Winkle.
mssHM 19076
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Receipts to Joseph Libbey Folsom
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This collection of manuscripts are receipts to Joseph Folsom for professional services such as building a furnace and grading streets, and for purchased goods. Dated between 1851 and 1852.
mssHM 19067
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George Folsom letter book
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Letter book of George Folsom kept from September 2, 1850 to October 20, 1853, while he was chargé d'affaires of the United States legation in the Netherlands. The letters, written to various American government officials, discuss the preparations for Matthew Perry's expedition to Japan (including the effort to obtain coastal maps of Japan and Walter Henry Medhurst's Japanese dictionary); the case of William A. Seely, a New York lawyer involved in recovering the Dutch crown jewels stolen in 1828; the effort to dislodge a gentleman who claimed to be the consul of the Republic of Texas; and diplomatic implications of the 1848 constitutional reform in the Netherlands.
mssHM 83981