A. E. Heald letters

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  Charles E. Pickett letter to Thomas Hinckley Thompson

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  In this letter, Pickett is alerting Thompson to an article recently published about Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Pickett asks Thompson to include it in the next issue of the Sonoma Democrat (the newspaper published by Thompson). Pickett also talks about Vallejo's candidacy for presidential elector on the Democratic ticket and the Democratic party's state convention in California.

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  Richard Armour letter to Paul Zall

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  This letter, written to fellow writer Paul Zall, chiefly talks about British poet Barry Cornwall and Armour's book Barry Cornwall: a biography of Bryan Waller Procter. Armour also talks a little bit about some of his other published works. The letter is written on "Claremont Men's College Memorandum" letterhead.

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  James Judson Jerome letters

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  The letters are written to Jerome by his sister Clara and brother Sylvester. The first, written by his sister Clara from a ranch in Watsonville, California in 1915, is about the death of his niece Jennie. Clara talks a little about her life in California. The second letter, written by his brother Sylvester from Uncasville, Connecticut in 1916, is a sympathy letter to James whose wife had just died.

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  Travel letter of Casey Albert Wood

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  This letter was written while Wood was on a year-long stay in Fiji and other islands in the Pacific Ocean. In the letter, written from Suva, Fiji, Wood talks about the birds and plants he sees in the various islands, with a focus on Fiji. Wood also talks a bit about the geographic areas' history and discovery. Included with the travel letter is a brochure for "The Grand Pacific Tour: the Voyage of the 20th Century" by the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, Ltd. and a letter by Cora Raymond to Dr. George W. McCoy regarding the travel letter (1924, February 25).

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  Richard E. Barnes letters to George Barnes

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  Six letters written by Richard E. Barnes from Diamond Springs, California (about 5 miles south of Placerville), to his brother George Barnes. The letters give an interesting flavor of life in a gold rush community in the late 1850s. Barnes talks about wages, prices, problems with mail and communications, hunting adventures including a friend getting shot accidentally, a friend's bear fight with a grizzly, the vigilance committee, and his longing for people to write him and to go back home. Barnes goes into some detail about the mines and mining in the area and money being earned and lost.

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  Sir Walter Scott letter to "Dear Laidlaw,"

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  In the letter Scott talks about greyhounds and a "Mr. Mathews." The letter is undated (the date is written as August 1822 in another hand).

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