Manuscripts

Charles William Watts papers

Description: A collection of 91 items from 1897 to 1963, which consists chiefly of letters written by Charles William Watts to his wife and daughter between 1897 and 1900. The letters are written from Alaska, including Juneau, Sheep Camp, Skagway, the Yukon River Valley, Dawson, and the Klondike River Valley. Watts's letters describe the Klondike gold rush and life in Alaska and in the Yukon. The collection also contains a photograph of Charles William Watts with a group of hunters and various clippings. There are also a few letters and notes written in 1963 by Lee Rohrbough.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1897-1963
Call number: mssHM 48341-48427
Creator: Watts, Charles William (1858-1900)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Lee Rohrbough, February 1966.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
Find out more: View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab); View in the Online Archive of California(Opens in new tab)

Correspondence

Manuscripts

A collection of 91 items from 1897 to 1963, which consists chiefly of letters written by Charles William Watts to his wife and daughter between 1897 and 1900. The letters are written from Alaska, including Juneau, Sheep Camp, Skagway, the Yukon River Valley, Dawson, and the Klondike River Valley. Watts's letters describe the Klondike gold rush and life in Alaska and in the Yukon. The collection also contains a photograph of Charles William Watts with a group of hunters and various clippings. There are also a few letters and notes written in 1963 by Lee Rohrbough.

mssHM 48341-48427

Image not available

Correspondence, photograph, clippings

Manuscripts

mssHM 48341-48427

Image not available

Charles William Paterson Papers

Manuscripts

This small collection consist of six letters from Captain Paterson to his uncle Charles William Tonyn (died 1805, rector of Radnage in Buckinghamshire) and to his grandmother, written chiefly from the Mediterranean fromn 1793 to 1794, mentioning in passing the French Royalist uprising at Toulon in November 1793, Sir william Sidney Smith's attack on the French naval fleet and arsenal in the Inner Harbor at Toulon, and Paterson's own concerns for his family, patronage, and promotion, and the Navy Board's various letters to Paterson concerning the personnel, supplies, and refitting of the ship Admiral de Vries at Chatham Yard in 1798. Other than a brief testimonial and a list of his promotions, there is virtually nothing about Paterson's earlier service in North America or his activities during the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.

mssHM 76748-76787

Image not available

William D. Gutman letters to Charles Scott

Manuscripts

These letters document William D. Gutman's failed efforts, in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to profit from the business of organizing and equipping parties of gold seekers to travel from the United States to the Klondike region of Canada's Northwest Territories. The letters are written to his friend Charles Scott of Woodburn, Oregon. Six of the seven letters were written in January 1898.

mssHM 83843-83849

Image not available

Stephen Watts Kearny proclamation to the inhabitants of New Mexico :

Manuscripts

Facsimile copy of Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny proclamation to the inhabitants of New Mexico that it had been taken by the United States and they should lay down their arms, August 22, 1846.

mssHM 84371

Image not available

Maria F. Watts letter to "Mrs. Foster,"

Manuscripts

Maria Watts thanks the otherwise unidentified Mrs. Foster for her visit, and offers advice for her possible move to the California town of Oakland, including details concerning the purchase of property. She advises Mrs. Foster not to delay, for she believes the price of land will increase sharply in the very near future.

mssHM 31265

Charles William Watts papers

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Correspondence

Correspondence, photograph, clippings

Charles William Paterson Papers

William D. Gutman letters to Charles Scott

Stephen Watts Kearny proclamation to the inhabitants of New Mexico :

Maria F. Watts letter to "Mrs. Foster,"