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Gideon Anthony Hamilton papers
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Gideon Anthony Hamilton papers
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The collection consists primarily of letters from Gideon Anthony Hamilton to his friend Samuel Frank Dexter in Pawtucket, Rhode Island from 1874-1922. In these letters he discusses life in Virginia City and Esmeralda County, the growing development of Mason Valley, and Hamilton's interest in ornithology. There are also some comments on life in San Francisco, California, and reminiscences of his overland journeys in 1863 and across Costa Rica in 1872. At the end of the collection are lyrics of songs copied by Gideon Anthony Hamilton, a photograph of Gideon Anthony Hamilton (1893), and some ephemera.
mssHM 26463-26512, mssHM 50923-50975
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Samuel Frank Dexter to Gideon Anthony Hamilton
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Sketch map of Mason Valley, Nevada, area and note. Enclosed in: Letter from Gideon Anthony Hamilton to Samuel Frank Dexter, 1880 December 9.
HM 50923
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Photograph of Gideon Anthony Hamilton
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mssHM 26463-26512, mssHM 50923-50975
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Ephemera
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Includes: Fragment listing date and causes of death of Gideon Anthony Hamilton; fragments of letters; clippings; and Arcata and Mad River R.R.C. Manifest of Cargo.
mssHM 26463-26512, mssHM 50923-50975
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Lyrics of songs copied by Gideon Anthony Hamilton
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mssHM 26463-26512, mssHM 50923-50975
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Samuel Frank Dexter papers
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Letters, diaries, essays, and other papers of Samuel Frank Dexter. The large portion of the collection consists of the letters that Dexter wrote to his children during the 1901 trip to California. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1902, Dexter and his wife took a trip to California in 1901 leaving their children in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. An expansive and consistent writer, his almost daily letters home to his children describe in minute detail their experiences and observations of various parts of California such as Alameda County, Bakersfield, Kern County, La Jolla, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Mount Lowe, Pasadena, Redlands, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Gabriel, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz County, and Santa Monica. Other places of interest that Dexter wrote about to his children include the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, descriptions of the California coast, and accounts of a trip taken in North Mexico. He also wrote frequently along their railroad trip to California, describing such places as Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, and Iowa. A noted naturalist and authority on ornithology, Samuel Frank Dexter and his friend Anthony (Gideon Anthony) Hamilton traveled to Sequoia National Park, California, in 1902. Included in this collection is the diary that Dexter kept during their excursion. Other correspondence came from Mattie J. Chase, who along with her family, lived in Vienna, Austria and wrote to her sister Anna Fannie Dexter detailing their life there. In addition to being a prolific letter writer, Dexter wrote a couple of essays that describe and illuminate life in Charleston, South Carolina and Rhode Island.
mssHM 65822-65938