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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Stephen Mallory White letter to Lawrence F. Bower
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Letter from Thomas R. Bard on United States Senate letterhead to the Reverend Lawrence F. Bower answering a query as to when he took his seat in the Senate. Included is a contemporary newspaper clipping about the Senator and a mounted photograph.
mssHM 21326
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Perkins apologizes for the delay in addressing Mr. Bower's request, but he has been "greatly pressed with business by reason of the long sessions of the Senate." He hopes that Mr. Bower will accept the enclosed photograph. No photograph is included.
mssHM 21316
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Mr. White informs Mr. Crawford that the "Panama or Masset land route" is open and relatively safe, and speaks of other personal and family matters.
mssHM 31277
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Williams responds to Bower's request that he was born in Maine in 1832, moved to California in 1858, and was elected to the Senate in 1886 as a Republican. Signed "A. P. Williams."
mssHM 21337
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Accounts of sales, receipts, and credit that Samuel White kept from Aug. 8, 1783 to Feb. 3, 1784. The sales records include the names of White's customers, (including Paul Revere and John Hancock), goods and prices. Also includes records of shipments and deliveries to the Bell, Success, and Hawk as well to the Live Oak, Enderby, and other merchant ships and "for the use of Hancock's warf." Also includes records of legal expenses of lawsuits involving the Bell. The manuscript opens with the "Inventory of the Effects in the possession of Samuel White. Received by ship Bell Capt. Robt. Birrell."
mssHM 53112
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In this letter to his brother Henry, Stephen Brooks writes of debts incurred while opening a store in San Francisco. He misses the comforts of life and the life of society, and plans to stay in California for one year. Letterhead is an image of "View of San Francisco, February 1850."
mssHM 16539