Manuscripts

Lucie M. Webber talk given to Literary Club at Stanford

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1905 May 23.
Call number: mssHM 48338
Creator: Webber, Lucie M(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In Library as of May 1982.
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W. H. Webber Chinese exclusion notebook

Manuscripts

This directory, compiled and used by immigration inspector W. H. Webber, is comprised of pasted-in clippings from San Francisco's Chinatown directories published by Horn Hong & Co., as well as handwritten lists by Webber, of residents living in Chinatown. The entries are dated by year and arranged by street name, though the entries are not in true chronological order. The earliest entries are dated 1883, the first year of enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the last entries are dated 1916.

mssHM 84094

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Lucy Aiken letter to unidentified addressee

Manuscripts

mssHM 20321

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Lucy Stoddard Wakefield letter to "Lucius & Rebecca"

Manuscripts

Lucy Wakefield writes to her friends Lucius and Rebecca, describing her environment in the mining town of Placerville, California. Like many others who arrived for the Gold Rush, she would like to stay in California permanently. Her shop has been doing well, and she has been making twenty dozen pies per week, all on her own. Of living in California, where she has been for two and a half years, she writes "there is no way for a woman to make money except by hard work of some sort." Lucy hopes to see her friends in California soon. Dated 1851, September 18-25.

mssHM 16386

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Lucy S. Miller letter to the Auditor of the Treasury

Manuscripts

This manuscript is a list of items received by Lucy S. Miller of Mariposa County, California, from "F. Trabucco" along with their estimated value. The items are postage stamps, a letter case and writing desk, a scale, and keys.

mssHM 75018

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Lucy Smith Crittenden Thornton papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 43 letters. Thirty of the 43 letters are from Lucy Smith Crittenden Thornton to her son Harry Innes Thornton, Jr. The remaining letters are written by other Thornton family members including (piece counts in parenthesis): Bessie Thornton (3), Sarah Thornton (2), Margaret Thornton Fall (1), Katherine Marshall Thornton (2), Harry I. Thornton, Jr. (3), and Ann Mary [last name unknown] (2). Even though the letters chiefly deal with family matters and the Thorntons' social lives in San Francisco and Oakland, California, many of the letters also discuss the social conditions in the post- war South and family friends who left the South because of failing plantations. The Thorntons also comment upon the numerous "Yankees" with whom they have to socialize after the war. The family also mentions the freedmen in the South, Jefferson Davis, the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, and politics in California. The 3 letters by Harry I. Thornton, Jr., discuss his travels in the American Southwest, his legal career, and specific court cases with which he was involved. Harry I. Thornton, Sr., is mentioned briefly in one letter.

mssHM 68280-68322

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Billington on Nevins : a talk given before the Zamorano Club on February 6, 1980

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Lucie M. Webber talk given to Literary Club at Stanford

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