Manuscripts

I.N. Hoag letterbook

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Description: This letterbook contains correspondence from the California Vine-growers' and Wine and Brandy Manufacturers' Association and an invitation to the General Convention on February 21, 1872.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1872.
Call number: mssHM 35293
Creator: Hoag, I.N(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, November 1971.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

I.N. Hoag's letter book

Manuscripts

This letter book contains correspondence regarding excursions to California and exhibitions sponsored by the California Immigration Commission of the Central Pacific Railroad Company.

mssHM 35294

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Charles A. Thackston letterbook

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Letterbook of outgoing letters sent by San Francisco merchant Charles A. Thackston from May 15, 1852, to February 13, 1853. Most of the correspondence relates to Thackston's business contacts in New York, and references shipping, power of attorney, and notes on various residents of San Francisco. Some of the correspondence appears to be personal, possibly written to Thackston's brother. In a bound letterbook labeled "Leonora Thackston, Scrap Book, 1870."

mssHM 75059

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Barney, Hiram Custom House memoranda (letterbook)

Manuscripts

The letterbook contains a copy of the 1861 Tarriff Act (March 13, 1861), with pasted Circular Instructions to Collectors and other Officers of the Customs (March 21, 1861) and with notes by Hiram Barney and notes and reports from various customs officers. Formerly call no. mssHM 70912.

mssHB

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Joseph Symson commercial letterbook

Manuscripts

This manuscript volume contains 2,041 office copies of correspondence sent out, mainly, by Symson but also his sons, so the volume is written in several different hands; the letterbook covers just under a decade and includes both business and personal affairs with notes of debts owed and some family correspondence. Shortly after acquiring the letterbook in 1985, the Huntington replaced the contemporary covers which the sale catalogue described as "blind-panelled reverse calf (both covers detached and badly worn);" the original covers were preserved and are housed separately.

mssHM 50670

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Diary and letterbook

Manuscripts

This journal or diary, kept at irregular intervals over nearly forty years (fullest for the 1720s), gradually morphs into a letterbook recording copies of Thomlinson's correspondence. Early entries discuss with some frankness his family and prospects, his own and his family's business and legal mattters, daily life and gossip, books and rading (including The Tatler), politics and current events, sermons, occasional medicinal rcipes and cures, and accounts of his corresepondence.

mssHM 70982

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Sutro Tunnel Company letterbook

Manuscripts

Letterbook kept by C.C. Thomas, superintendent of the Sutro Tunnel Company, from March to November 1882. The letters describe company business and operating expenses, as well as repairs made on the Sutro Tunnel. Also includes a sketch showing the claim of the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company.

mssHM 74760

I.N. Hoag letterbook

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