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William Hayes Hilton letter to "Friend Quackenbush,"
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William Hayes Hilton letter to "Quackenbush,"
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In this letter addressed to "Friend Quackenbush," William H. Hilton writes of mining details and mine operation in Silver Hill and Rock Springs District in California.
mssHM 16693
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William Hayes Hilton sketches
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Nine sketchbooks containing sketches done by William Hayes Hilton during his travel around California, Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico from 1850-1870. The most common subjects of his drawings are gold miners in California; San Francisco and Monterey, California; and Tepic and Mazatlan, Mexico. His sketches include people, churches, and landscapes, and in several of them he drew the indigenous people of California and Mexico as well as Chinese people in California. Several of the sketchbooks have loose sketches and are in fragile condition.
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William Hayes Chamberlin journal
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The first volume is No. 5 of several copies Alexander Rea Chamberlin made of his great-grandfather's journal. It includes a facsimile copy of the original journal as well as facsimile copies of the journal as it was printed in the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania newspaper, Chronicle. in 1849 and 1850. Chamberlin's journal covers his overland journey to California in 1849. The volume also contains later entries from a diary Chamberlin kept in 1853 to 1857 while living in California. These entries also include a trip Chamberlin took back East by ship. While in New Orleans he makes several specific comments on the slaves he sees.
mssHM 82522 (a+b)
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William Boyd Allison letter to "My dear Mr. Cole,"
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In this letter to the otherwise unidentified Mr. Cole, Allison writes that he may not be available as planned due to a scheduled dinner with friends.
mssHM 29213
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Cornelius Cole letter to "Friend Avery,"
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In this brief note to the otherwise unidentified "Friend Avery," Cole writes that he has sent some papers that "may serve as a memorandum for Mrs. O." He is unsure if "pension was obtained" but "Mr. Olmstead will know." Signed "C. Cole."
mssHM 29227
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William Henry Seward letter to Ogden Hoffman
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In this letter to Judge Hoffman, Seward writes of a pending civil case in California involving the consul of the kingdom of Hanover, a man named Otto Frank: "The present is not a fit time to entertain unnecessary and speculative questions of privilege in regard to either diplomatic or consular representatives of foreign Powers." However, he points out that "there can be no fit time for abating the necessary national authority, when its exercise is absolutely necessary." Seward then gives Hoffman advice on how to proceed, based on the pending actions of Otto Frank.
mssHM 19015