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Samuel W. Messerne letter
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G. W. Buckmore letter to George Gaulet
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In this letter, Buckmore talks a lot about the climate of California, his business, gold mining, crime in San Francisco, the deaths of some of his friends, and the lumber trade in California and Oregon. He also advises his friend to urge people to not come to California unless they have the means to survive.
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Glenn W. Herrick letter to Anna C. Stryke
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In this letter, Glenn Herrick describes a trip to California and apologizes for not making it to Miss Stryke's home in Pasadena. He goes on to document a visit to Redondo Beach and Rose Hill in Southern California. He and his wife then traveled by train to San Jose. They traveled to Palo Alto to see Stanford University and had a chance meeting with David Starr Jordan with whom during a half hour chat "couldn't get away from his peace ideas." He entreats Miss Stryke to see the University and compares it with Cornell. They travel to San Francisco and find luxuriously apartments on Nob Hill only a block away from Leland Stanford's former residence. Mr. Herrick and his wife find San Francisco more interesting than Los Angeles, but much colder. He advises that when Miss Stryke visits San Francisco that she look for rooms West of Market Street. In closing, he apologizes for missing the visit in Pasadena.
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George C. Perkins letter to William Logue
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Perkins is ready to accept Logue's proposal "without any more talk" and hopes he "will be more prosperous in the years to come" for his "perseverance deserves to be rewarded." All Logue must do is pay the $500 principal, which Perkins advises him to do.
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Rufus W. Griswold letter from unknown author
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In this letter, the unknown author, who is in Wilmington, Delaware, is expecting Griswold to come and visit him the next day or he will be "exceedingly disappointed." The last name of the author of the letter may be "Fanrier." The signature is difficult to read.
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Robert Creuzbaur letter to Samuel Bulkley Ruggles
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Creuzbaur writes of his plans to design and build a "steam plow" and discusses the proposed agricultural advantages for his machine. He invites Ruggles to examine the machine, which he assures Ruggles "will find totally differing from any plan heretofore worked upon."
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Edward W. Syle diary
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Edward W. Syle began writing this diary in April 1851 after six years of missionary work in China, though he still expressed shock at cultural differences. When he moved to San Francisco, he seemed distressed to find the Chinese so ragged and impoverished, and disappointed by the widespread discrimination they faced. He also commented on the circumstances of various Gold Rush mining camps. After he left San Francisco, the closing months of this diary were written back in Shanghai in October 1856.
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