Manuscripts
C.H. Poor letters to George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy
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Estrada, E---- M----. 1 letter to Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, land tracts, scrapbooks, cartes-de-visites and ephemera. Although the majority of the material in the collection deals with the Donner Party, several items written by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton deal with California history. Half of the correspondence deals with the Pioneer (Donner) Monument, which was financed by the Native Sons of the Golden West. Correspondence also includes letters by C.F. McGlashan, Patty Reed Lewis, and seven letters by Tamsen Donner. A letter from Eliza to "My Children" was written immediately after her visit with John Baptiste Trudeau. There is an incomplete handwritten draft of The expedition of the Donner Party and its tragic fate.
HM 58159.
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Enoch Poor His Book 1759 : A Journal From Newbury to Saint John's
Manuscripts
Journal that Enoch Poor kept during his military service, including his accounts of three expeditions upstream in July and September 1759, the negotiations with the Acadians who had surrendered at the fort following the fall of Quebec, and soldiers' discontent over their pay.
mssHM 610
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Robeson, George M. (George Maxwell), 1829-1897 letter to William Henry Rawle, 1823-1889
Manuscripts
Camden (N.J.) Stockton, Robert Field, 1795-1866 -- Estate Included: Attached letter
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Edward Robeson Taylor letter to Mr. Prang
Manuscripts
In this letter to Mr. Prang written on letterhead of the Mayor's Office, City and County of San Francisco, Taylor thanks Prang for his kind birthday letter. He thinks the mayoral election on November 5, 1907 will go well, as he believes that the people seem to be for him while all the politicians are not. Taylor asks Prang to remember him to his wife and says that he is sending a copy of his selected poems that were published on the anniversary of the fire.
mssHM 29265