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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Henry T. Huggins letter to Mrs. Henry T. Huggins
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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
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth's journal, which is in the form of a letter to his wife Nancy Goodrich Ellsworth, covers Ellsworth's 1832 trip, starting at Fort Gibson, across what is now Oklahoma. His travel companions were Washington Irving, Joseph Charles Latrobe, and Albert, Count de Pourtalés. The journal includes details regarding the group's route, the physical description of the area, and the group's interactions with the Pawnee and the Osage Indians. Ellsworth also tells about several buffalo and wild horse hunts in which he and Washington Irving participate. The journal was published in 1937 with the title Washington Irving on the prairie.
mssHM 66493
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Stratton relates personal details, including the health of his family and how finely trimmed his home shrubbery is: "I take a good deal of personal pride in them as they have all been cultivated at my own expense and with my own hands." He also writes of local political matters. The letter is incomplete, with only the first two pages being present.
mssHM 16733
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Letter was written in a Gregory's Express pocket letter book, printed in 1851. Reynolds describes San Francisco and the recent activites of the vigilance committee in the city. He also discusses the possibility of his wife traveling to San Francisco to join him and how she may obtain money through the offices of Page, Bacon & Co
mssHM 56914
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Joseph Gale reports the bills have been made, and asks Smith to send onion seed. Gale also laments that California "is one of the most wretched places in the world" owing to rampant crime and a lack of law, and says that "if a man wishes justice he has to take the law into his own hands."
mssHM 16554
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Henry Uhrbroock introduces himself by letter to the wife of James Clarke, whom Uhrbroock describes as his partner. Uhrbroock writes that Mr. Clarke is currently unable to write to his wife, and hopes that she will accept this letter in his stead. He writes of both the atrocities and the beauty of California, and hopes to be able to report favorably regarding Mr. Clarke in the near future.
mssHM 21250
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Six letters sent by Henry Worthington to his mother from Temecula, California, between 1878 and 1881. Worthington writes frequently of the local tribe of Pala Indians and their nearby mission. His ranch hand, Antonio, was a Pala Indian, and Worthington writes of the trouble that ensued following his death (HM 19967, HM 19968). He notes seeing Pala Indians, who were in a "starving condition," being "pretty badly punished" by troops and settlers at Pala (HM 19967), and of attending the "Indian feast of San Luis" at the Pala mission. The celebration was also attended by tribes from Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, including a "band of Apaches" and tribes from Temecula, Pala, Pauma, and San Jacinto. Worthington describes the festivities in detail, including a bull fight during which a horse was killed and trouble made by drunk Yaquis Indians (HM 19969). He also writes throughout of his homesickness, descriptions of the land, and family news, including a hiking trip to visit the grave of his daughter Alice (HM 19966).
mssHM 19964-19969