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Zhou Gong Yan letter to Chinese residents in Dutch Flat, California

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Description: This Chinese letter was written by Zhou Gong Yan to two men named Sun Run Fang and Sun [Fa] Xiang. The content of the letter is mainly about money and business. Zhou Gong Yan wrote about his difficult economic circumstance and referred to the price of rice, pork, vegetables, and other food products. He has also written about the closing of his unspecified business and difficulties of life in China. The author complained in the letter about a loan that was not repaid.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1912.
Call number: mssHM 80483
Creator: Zhou, Gong Yan(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from PBA Galleries, January 2014.

Belvedere Island, California residences: Carter residence

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Interior and exterior views of a house. Includes images of bedrooms and the backyard and sun porch.

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Materials on quartz and gold mining operations mainly in Tuolumne County and Placer County, California. Items include an 1884 letter to Henry G. Wetmore from Charles L. Lang of the Rising Sun Mine in Placer County in which he writes of "the idiotic manner in which my partner Comstock is running the mine;" an 1876 letter from C.J. Moore asking Wetmore to invest in the harness leather trade; an 1877 letter from C.J. Pilsbury to Wetmore with mining engineering instructions; an 1888 letter from E.A. Roberts to Wetmore about selling a mine in Sonora; an 1877 letter to Wetmore from Sam Rudolph at the Bower Cave Mine in Colorado regarding quartz testing; an 1880 description of the Well Rough Mine and statements regarding the collapse of the Soulsbyville Mill; an indenture between the Duchow brothers and Wetmore for the Lony Mine; and a printed pamphlet on the Mazeppa Gold Mining Company in Tuolumne County, California.

mssHM 73077-73084

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Andrew Jackson, Fort Strother, Mississippi Territory, letter to Rachel Jackson, Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee :

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Jackson reports on the current state of military affairs including conduct, desertion and apathy of the volunteer infantry and of contractors; the state of supplies, particularly beef and pork; his inability to advance. He also sends instructions regarding Lyncoya, a Creek Indian infant orphaned during the Creek War and adopted by Jackson in November 1813.

mssHM 22963

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E. C. Dunn diary

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mssHM 67919

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Jean Frédéric Ostervald letters

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Five letters written by Jean Frédéric Ostervald and one manuscript by an unidentified writer. Two of the five letters are addressed to Monsieur [Jean] Clogenson (1785-1876), a librarian in Alençon, and one letter, dated 1825, is addressed to Professor [Marc-August] Pictet (1752-1825), an influential editor and researcher who was a professor of natural philosophy at the Academy of Geneva. The recipients of the other two letters are unidentified. The letters are in French; one was written from Paris, France, while the origin of the others is unspecified. The four-page manuscript, also written in French, possibly by Ostervald, describes routes and travel times between numerous destinations, mostly within Switzerland.

mssHM 82714-82719

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Marsilio Landriani letters to Jean-André de Luc

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Nine letters written by Marsilio Landriani to Swiss meteorologist, physicist, and geologist Jean-André de Luc (1727-1817), addressed as "Monsieur" and "Mon cher Monsieur" in their salutations. The letters, which are in French, relate to Landrianis work as a physicist, and address topics including electricity, meteorology, hygrometry, and various experiments. Those dated 1783, 1786, and 1787 were written from Milan, Italy, and those dated 1788 were written from London, England (two letters), or from an unspecified location (one letter). Six letters bear red wax seals, and two show traces of seals that were removed. Three letters include the name Landriani or M. Landriani handwritten in red ink at the top.

mssHM 82696-82704

Zhou Gong Yan letter to Chinese residents in Dutch Flat, California

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