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Franklin Hichborn letter to Andrae Nordskog
Manuscripts
In a previous letter, Andrae Nordskog asks Franklin Hichborn to follow and garner support for a measure to amend the California constitution following a failed ballot proposition to enable cities the right to grant franchises for privately owned public utilities and to collect taxes without having to fix the rates. In this response, Hichborn denies the request citing that he has been retired for many years and is now out of touch with the present order at the state capitol, nor does he have any time to study the measure. He closes the letter trusting that Nordkog was able to locate a copy if Hichborn's book, The system.
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Franklin Hichborn correspondence
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The group includes six letters of Franklin Hichborn and fellow historian Andrae Nordskog. In the letters, Hichborn and Nordskog discuss Hichborn's political writings, political corruption in California, Hiram Johnson, Ernest E. Debs, telephone company corruption and a measure Nordskog was trying to bring before the Los Angeles City Council regarding telephone rates. There are also two reviews of Madison Grant's book The conquest of a continent : or expansion of races in America. One of these items is a negative review by Richard E. Gutstadt of the Anti-Defamation League, the other is a positive review of the book by Franklin Hichborn
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Andrae Nordskog letter to Franklin Hichborn
Manuscripts
In this letter with the stamped letterhead of author, Andrae Nordskog says that his proposed amendment to Article Eleven, Section 19 of the California Constitution gained the sponsorship of the Santa Clara City Council measure to enable cities the right to grant franchises for privately owned public utilities. He states that Councilman Ernest E. Debs will take the proposed amendment to Sacramento for presentation.
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Andrae Nordskog letter to Franklin Hichborn
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In this letter with the stamped letterhead of author, Andrae Nordskog asks Franklin Hichborn to follow and garner support for a measure to amend the California constitution following a failed ballot proposition to enable cities the right to grant franchises for privately owned public utilities and to collect taxes without having to fix the rates.
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Franklin Pierce, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, letter to William D. Ticknor, Boston :
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In a letter presumably about Nathaniel Hawthorne's Life of Franklin Pierce, Pierce mentions that his friend has written a notice on the book that he will send to Ticknor, suggests it should be published in the Post. A postscript discusses booksellers.
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George Horatio Derby letter to Martha Hitchcock
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In this letter to Mrs. Hitchcock, Derby apologizes for being unable to keep his promise to write sooner, owing to ill health. He writes of mutual acquaintances, and reports that his latest book will soon be published. Includes envelope.
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