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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
David Shaw Shrode letter to W. S. Shrode
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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
In this letter to a newspaper editor, David S. Jordan notes that a manuscript "A continuing city" had not been published yet as that it was published in a larger work, "Imperial democracy" to be released by Appleton & Co. on June 18th of that year. He offers some other essays that may be of use as the publication of the larger volume might affect the arrangement they made.
mssHM 31258
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Broderick has forwarded a package of letters sent by Forney, and says Forney should have time to copy the names before the departure of the next steamer to California.
mssHM 21329
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Watkins writes that he is doing well, but not as well as he had hoped. He is in on two claims at around two hundred dollars each, but is not sure where he will go next, for "claims in this part of the mines is failing fast." He is enjoying the California climate, but there are "hardly any wimin girls Darn scarce." With negative photostat facsimile.
mssHM 16533
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Letter from Olin Wellborn to Captain John W. Swindells in Austin, Texas. Wellborn writes that he would like to recommend Swindells for the clerkship of the New Court, but he had already "signed the petition of another gentleman" for the post.
mssHM 29266
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Two letters sent by David Shaw Shrode to his brother William, written shortly after David's arrival in California. The first letter was sent from Milquatay, California, and is dated December 27, 1870. David writes of the "long and tiresome and dangerous" trip to California, of leaving his cattle and various supplies in Arizona, describes the land in the area ("a very good Stock country but no farming Country"), writes of the "wickedness and ignorance" of Arizona and New Mexico, writes disparagingly of the Pima and Maricopa Indians, and notes the state of the cattle business. The second letter was sent from El Monte, California, and is dated April 23-24, 1871. David and his wife Mariah write of their general happiness in California despite drought conditions, describe the climate and agricultural prospects, and note the prices of land. In a postscript David writes of the lack of timber and of his plans to move "to a new colony 25 or 30 miles from here, [where I] can get land...for 13 dollars per acre."
mssHM 16734-16735
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In these two letters addressed to "My Beloved Wife," David Saville writes that he hopes to make enough money in San Francisco to "make us independent and pay all our obligations." As business is slow, he has become homesick, as he has "too much time on my hands." He writes "if only Congress would pass a Rail Road bill it would give us new life." Dated 1860, May 14 (HM 16640) and June 1 (HM 16641).
mssHM 16640-16641