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Charles Crocker telegram to Leland Stanford
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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
In HM 47837, Hopkins reports that "Charley," allegedly Charles Crocker, is on his way to Sacramento, and Stanford should route future messages accordingly. HM 47838 states: "West is at end of track waiting your reply answer." Dated 1869, April 6 and April 10. Printed forms, filled in.
mssHM 47837-47838
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The collection contains 675 letters from Charles Crocker to Collis Huntington and Huntington's secretary Isaac Gates written between August 1881 and December 1883. The letters were dictated by Crocker to private secretaries in San Francisco and sent to Huntington in New York City. The letters sent to Isaac Gates are adminstrative in nature. The letters explore Crocker's interests in banking, real estate, agricultural development, and mining. Most of the letters sent to Huntington are business-related, including Crocker and Huntington's interests in the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad, the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, and other railroads and mines scattered through the Southwest, Oregon, and Mexico.
mssCrocker
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Deeth reports of the election of the Grand Marshall of the Pacific Railroad, and the impending celebration "when the last rail is laid." Printed form, filled in.
mssHM 47836
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Collis Huntington reports that he will not issue a new bill until new construction equipment has been supplied. Printed form, filled in. Also included is a photocopy of the original.
mssHM 47839
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Letter sent from Jonas and Hannah Bardsley in Cincinnati, Ohio, to relatives in England shortly after the Bardsleys had arrived in the United States in 1844. Jonas writes to his parents that after landing in Philadelphia and failing to find work in New England or Cleveland, the family traveled to the "western country" and settled in Cincinnati. They had previously worked on a steamboat (Jonas as a fireman, Hannah as a chambermaid, and their son George as a cabin boy) and had traveled up the Red River "three hundred miles higher than any boat ever went before." They passed through the settlements of Choctaw, Cherokee, and other Indian tribes before their steamship was wrecked "2,500 miles above New Orleans." They traveled back down the river in canoes, and camped out along the river among "thousands of...crocodiles, alligators, bloodsuckers, vampires, and other dangerous water reptiles" and in the woods with bears and wolves, although Jonas chiefly complains about the mosquitoes and sand flies. At one point George came down with bilious fever, and Jonas writes that they ultimately spent most of their steamboat wages in getting home. Following the steamboat incident, Jonas determined that "I will be my own master as long as I stay in this country." He writes to his brother John of trying to repay a debt he owes him, although "it is desperate hard to work to get hold of money in this part of the country." Still, Jonas wrote to his brother George that provisions are cheap and "a man with a family is much better off here than in England," although the lack of "amusement" made it less appealing to single men. In a section to his sister Esther, Jonas notes that Hannah "has got many of the Yankee ways" and has become restless since "she has never been able to muster a baby since she left England." He concludes that his son George is sending them a walking stick and tea ground he got in trade from the Choctaw Indians in Texas. The letter is on a printed letterhead with an engraved image of Cincinnati.
mssHM 80135