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Eben Chapman letter to Eben Hunt
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Eben Chapman letters to Eben Hunt
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Chapman discusses the prices of goods and market conditions in San Francisco. He also writes of his own mining and farming prospects, and of other various business dealings. He also discusses the idea of slavery in California in HM 4199. HM 4198, dated July 1, 1852, is incomplete, consisting of only the first three pages. HM 4199 is dated July, 1852.
mssHM 4198-4199
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Jonathan Heywood letters to Jane Heywood
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In these three letters addressed to his wife, Jane, Jonathan Heywood writes of his experiences in Yreka, California in 1853. HM 4201, dated July 16, Heywood writes that he has returned to California after six weeks in Oregon. He has sent gold dust home to Jane, and hopes to send more soon. He wishes that she send the children to school as much as possible. HM 4202 was written on August 7. Heywood sends more money and asks for news of home, as he has received no response to his letters. In HM 4203, dated September 4, Heywood writes that he is sending money home in the hands of a mutual friend.
mssHM 4201-4203
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Charles Frederick Holder letter to John Vance Chaney
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Letter written from Charles F. Holder in Pasadena to John Vance Chaney, the head of the San Francisco Public Library. Holder writes that he has been delayed in getting back to San Francisco because of the "Tournament of Roses" given by his Hunt Club. He also asks Chaney if he has heard anything about "the Overland" (probably The Overland Monthly magazine), which he had been trying to acquire, and praises a newspaper man named Field of the San Francisco Chronicle.
mssHM 75639
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Letter to Evelina B. Bailey
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In this letter, the pioneer identified only as "Hume" writes to his sister that he has relocated his store to Pigua, Ohio, "80 miles from here where I plan to reside," and asks her to make plans to come stay with him a while. He also tells her he has "several thousand dollars of Texas Treasury Notes" which he is willing to give to her to pass along to her "boys in Texas."
mssHM 46546
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James Madison, Philadelphia, letter to Major General Baron von Steuben, New York :
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Madison writes that he has not heard anything about Baron von Steuben's land in Virginia.
mssHM 4686
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John Charles Frémont letter to Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
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Frémont writes that he has just returned from Bear Valley, where he has "succeeded in putting matters there in solid & prosperous condition," and of the breakup of the Merced Mining Company.
mssHM 21239