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Manuscripts
Bill for supplies from the estate of Charles Covilland
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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
These two manuscripts are receipts written by Stephen J. Field acknowledging payment received from Charles Covilland. The first receipt (HM 43202) is dated 1856, May 23, and is payment for Field's legal expertise related to property owned by Covilland. The second (HM 43203, dated 1857, April 25) is a bill to Covilland for Field's legal services and clerking fees.
mssHM 43202-43203
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This letter makes official Sicard's sale to Covilland of his interests in the D.J. Willman Company.
mssHM 43205
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Verot requests Covilland to send payment for interest for the month of May, as Verot needs it for his son's expenses. In French. With printed bill of exchange to order, filled in to Joseph Vero by hand, in the total of two thousand four hundred twenty francs. Includes unattributed translation into English.
mssHM 43210
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This manuscript is an account of the estate of Joseph Libbey Folsom, and American military officer and real estate investor who died in the mid-19th century, around the year 1856. It is largely a list of Folsom's assets and their approximate value. Halleck is acting as executor, along with Archibald Peachy and Peter Warren Van Winkle.
mssHM 19076
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This manuscript is a receipt addressed to A.B. Thompson, listing goods received by Coffin and their worth in Spanish dollars.
mssHM 48976
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This report, which was compiled by the Engineering Department of the Bureau of Water Works & Supply, was presented to the mayor and city council of Los Angeles by A. J. Wiley, F. C. Herrmann, and Charles H. Paul. The report is an investigation into the safety of water reservoirs and dams in Los Angeles. It includes a survey and map of 29 different reservoirs and dams throughout the city. The report also includes an appendix by F. L. Ransome regarding the geological conditions at the Mulholland Dam; the appendix includes a map and photographs.
mssHM 66753