Manuscripts
James L. Ord receipt to Augustine B. Caldwell
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Asahel Bush letter to William H. Frush
Manuscripts
This letter acknowledges receipt from Mr. Frush the sum of seven dollars and fifty cents, paid for advertising notice of an application for a ferry license for Jon B. Stephens.
mssHM 16540
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Receipts for dues paid by James Ludlow
Manuscripts
Here are four receipts from the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco, California, recording quarterly dues paid by James Ludlow. The receipts are dated 1858, October 1; 1859, January 1; 1860, January 1; and 1860, April 1. Each is in the total of three dollars, and each is signed by H. H. Moore. Printed forms, filled in by hand.
mssHM 257
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Edward Otho Cresap Ord letter to Collis Potter Huntington
Manuscripts
Letter from Edward Ord in Mexico City to Collis Potter Huntington. Ord writes that he had met with Mexican president Manuel Gonzalez Flores, when Ord had apparently given him a proposition relating to the railroad. The proposition appears to have related to the route of a rail line, which would be partly constructed on private land. Ord writes that he made "this communication in confidence and as a matter of duty to my employers."
mssHM 40685
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Receipt for Benjamin Davis Wilson
Manuscripts
The receipt to B. D. Wilson is for "Sixty two 30/100 Dollars" which was "interest for the month of September on a certain promise note of twenty five hundred dollars." It is signed "J. P. Newmark per Harris Newmark." It is dated 1855, October 1 and was written in Los Angeles.
mssHM 72179
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Correspondence of James P. Orde
Manuscripts
This collection contains 86 items, housed in two boxes. The collection is arranged chronologically. It covers George Perfect Haring and his commission for copying portraits in English country houses; and information of the location of many pictures in private ownership during the early 19th century.
mssHM 67960-68045
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John Kirk Townsend receipt to John Paty
Manuscripts
This manuscript is a receipt for one lot of medicine valued at forty-seven dollars and eighty-four cents, and cash in the sum of thirty-eight dollars and sixty-six cents, received from Captain John Paty on account of duties payable to the custom house at Monterey for the cargo of the vessel Don Quixote.
mssHM 35203