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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Elijah White letter to Medorem Crawford
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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
Mr. Moss informs Mr. Crawford about several shipments of material for dresses, located in several states.
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Mr. Pickett informs Mr. Crawford that he will be arriving soon, and wishes his horses to not be disposed of, especially the mare. He also asks for potatoes and a few bushels of oats. Corner of letter missing.
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Mr. Richardson discusses with Mr. Crawford details regarding a business transaction involving cattle.
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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.
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Mr. Osgood requests of Mr. Crawford to inform him of the character of Ms. Julia A. Dean, "as relates to those qualities most desired in a wife."
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In this letter to his otherwise unnamed grandfather, Medorem Crawford writes about his experience aboard the military barque "Torrent" en route from Fort Vancouver "on which our Battery was embarked." The ship wrecked, and Crawford endeavored to "save as many of the one hundred and sixty people aboard as possible." Once gaining shore in Alaska at Fort Kodiak, Crawford writes that "we are about as poor as poverty can make us" and that "this is a miserably poor country fit for nothing but the furs which abound here." In addition, he writes that "one of the greatest objections I have to the country is that there are from ten to a dozen earthquakes here every year. Caused by two active volcanoes which are within a hundred & fifty miles of here."
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