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Manuscripts
Statement concerning letter of Wabasha and Taopi to Henry Hastings Sibley
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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
In this letter, Sibley gives a short summary of his career in politics and the US Army including his appointment by "President Lincoln." It is written on letterhead for the "Larkin House" in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
mssHM 79167
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Ten of the twenty-five letters were written by Alexander H. Sibley, and are chiefly about his voyage to California by sea. The letters written before Sibley left New York discuss the prevailing feeling of "gold fever" among his fellow passengers. He also wrote letters from Chagres and Havana, describing his stopovers in Panama and Cuba during his sea voyage. A letter by Sibley to his brother-in-law, Charles Christopher Trowbridge, describes the San Francisco fire of June 1850. A letter by Benjamin S. Lippincott discusses gold discoveries and vigilante activity in Sonora, CA. The other letters, written by various family members and friends in Detroit, MI, and Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien, WI, are mainly about family affairs, and include a letter by Sibley's brother, Henry Hastings Sibley, regarding their mother's death.
mssHM 60827-60851
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The letters reads as follows: "Dear Paul, Quite in order to quote my name as a referee. I wish good luck to you & your project! Greetings & cordial wishes to you & yours. Yours sincerely Basil Willey."
mssHM 78354
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Joseph Gale reports the bills have been made, and asks Smith to send onion seed. Gale also laments that California "is one of the most wretched places in the world" owing to rampant crime and a lack of law, and says that "if a man wishes justice he has to take the law into his own hands."
mssHM 16554
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These papers contain correspondence from David Hastings Mason to George S. Bowen, Henry Carey Baird, and Cyrus Elder regarding United States economics, politics, and government. Also, there is an untitled manuscript written by George S. Bowen detailing the question of currency.
mssHM 80187-80195
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Caroline Severance wrote this letter to Mrs. J. E. Smith in May 1906. In it, Severance is asking her former employee to return to her former position. Along with the letter is a signed copy of Severance's book The mother of clubs. There is also an inscription (partial - page torn): "...my good friend + generous keeper Mrs. J E Smith, with love + best wishes from C. M. Severance. May 1906 'El Nido' Los Angeles."
mssHM 82442