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Albert Mayer Winn letter to Charles Covilland
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John Augustus Sutter letter to Charles Covilland
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Sutter hopes that Covilland might have for sale a lot of land in Marysville, so that Sutter's son may live there and build a house on it. In return, Sutter has some separate land that he would be willing to trade.
mssHM 43206
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Pierre Théodore Sicard letter to Charles Covilland
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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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Joseph Verot letter to Charles Covilland
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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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John Augustus Sutter letter to Alpheus Bard Thompson
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Mr. Sutter informs Mr. Thompson that he has bought "the whole Russian Establishment of Ross and Bodega," and offers Mr. Thompson a portion of property at Bodega Rancho "on reasonable terms", as Mr. Thompson has a farm nearby.
mssHM 48975
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Charles E. (Charles Edward) Pickett letter to Medorem Crawford
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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.
mssHM 16376
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Brantz Mayer letters to Cornelia Poor Mayer
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Three letters sent by Brantz Mayer in California to his wife Cornelia Poor Mayer in 1872. In the first letter, dated June 17 and sent from San Francisco, Mayer writes of speaking to various individuals about his plans to travel to Yosemite, of other groups who have traveled there, and notes that "about 999 Japs came out of the Hotel [the Grand Hotel, San Francisco] today, from the just arrived China Steamer." In the second letter, dated June 23 from Calaveras County, California, he writes of traveling from San Francisco to Murphys, California, with the Sawyer family and others. In the final letter, dated June 28 in Yosemite Valley, Mayer writes extensively of his travels from Calaveras to Yosemite, of his encounters with locals and tourists, of the scenery, of transportation in the Valley, of expenses, and his conclusions that "as to this Yosemite Journey, I have to observe that it is so fatiguing when quickly & cheaply made, that I might almost say a poor man has no right to undertake it." The letter was completed in San Francisco on July 2, and mentions William W. Belknap and Reverdy Johnson, Mayer's general travels in California, and of Mayer's being "quite fatigued yet, and very generally demoralized by the journey."
mssHM 21311-21313