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James Allen Hardie letter to Joseph Libbey Folsom

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    James Allen Hardie letter to Peter Warren Van Winkle

    Manuscripts

    Hardie inquires if Warren would be interested in managing a lot of property in San Francisco owned by Hardie.

    mssHM 19073

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    Accounts of the estate of Joseph Libbey Folsom

    Manuscripts

    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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    W.R. Isaacs MacKay letter to Joseph Libbey Folsom

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    MacKay hopes that Folsom's health is improving, and writes to Folsom that "Congress could not fail to exonerate you from all accountability" and that "one thing is certain, you have not been dealt fairly with." He hopes that Folsom's "business troubles are finally closed." He laments the choice of John Bigler for governor of California, saying "I could hardly suppose that California could have sunk so low."

    mssHM 19075

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    Halleck, Peachy & Billings letter to Joseph Libbey Folsom

    Manuscripts

    This letter beseeches Folsom to send the firm the amount of his bill from the past year. Signed "Halleck, Peachy & Billings" in a hand differing from the body of the letter.

    mssHM 19069

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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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    Joseph L. Folsom letter to David Rogers

    Manuscripts

    Folsom writes of an ongoing legal matter with some intentional vagueness, fearing that his letter may be intercepted.

    mssHM 19070