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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Peter H. Burnett letter to Edward John Cage Kewen
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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
The account book is from Peter Hardeman Burnett's years in Missouri. It also contains information about the estate of John Thornton. The second volume, created by Raymond W. Settle, contains newspaper clippings about Burnett, and typewritten copies of letters written by Burnette, from Oregon and California, to William S. Smith, 1846 January 20, James M. Hugh, 1847 March, Caroline M. Moss, 1881 November 1, E. M. Samuel, 1861 March 9 and 1862 July 16, and Alexander William Doniphan 1849, February 2.
mssHM 40698-40699
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Burnett thanks Austin for being elected an honorary member of the Northwestern Literary and Historical Society.
mssHM 21344
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Mr. Crawford writes of an unsettled matter with a J.A. O'Neil, and wishes the legal counsel of Mr. Burnett.
mssHM 31267
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Simpson informs Kern that had he heard of Kern's plans to return to St. Louis earlier, Simpson would have hired him as an assistant, and sends his regrets. He also writes that Kern should soon receive a congressional copy of the Navajo report.
mssHM 20645
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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
WN 501.
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Sir Thomson requests Governor Burnett's assistance concerning the seizure by pirates of the Australian schooner "Helen" during her voyage from Sydney to Moreton Bay, Queensland. Reports indicate the ship was then taken to California. Also included is a testimory endorsing Sir Thomsen's identity, signed by James H. Williams, United States consul for the Port of Sydney.
mssHM 19388