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Brooks expresses his honor and gratitude for being elected an honorary member of the Society, an organization based in Sioux City, Iowa. Includes a newspaper clipping with a brief biography of Brooks.
mssHM 29222
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Letter from Noah Haynes Swayne to Odgen Hoffman, sent from Washington, D.C. Swayne thanks Hoffman for sending him a letter and pamphlet, and remarks on "the Roland case."
mssHM 19023
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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
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Letter from Noah C. McFarland to Eppa Hunton and M.L. Woods, written on Department of the Interior, General Land Office letterhead. McFarland writes of an appeal by William McGarrahan regarding an 1883 protest against "the issuance of patents to the New Idria Mg. Company for the San Carlos Nos. 1, 2, and 3 lode claims, San Francisco," which was rejected by the General Land Office. McFarland relates the "grounds of error assigned in the appeal," and concludes that "Mr.McGarrahan clearly has no right of appeal and the case is accordingly dismissed."
mssHM 26608
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Requesting a review for the Yorkshire Post written and signed by Gilbert Armitage for Brooks.
mssHM 15598