Manuscripts
Daniel Knaus letter to Simon Ruply
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Daniel Cleveland manuscripts
Manuscripts
The three items include: a 19-page letter by Cleveland to J. Ross Browne, US Minister to China, regarding the Chinese in California (1868, July 27); a 476-page handwritten manuscript entitled "The Chinese in California," written in 1868-1869; and a typed manuscript entitled "San Diego Sixty Years Ago" written circa 1929. Both the letter and manuscript regarding Chinese in California are about the history of Chinese immigration to California, their social and domestic lives, their religion, education, missionaries work with the Chinese, their role in the California Gold Rush and the building of railroads and the various California laws regarding Chinese immigrants and Chinese women. The manuscript about San Diego covers the history of San Diego after its settlement. Cleveland talks about "Old Town," San Diego founder Alonzo Horton, the city's development, the landscape of the area, and the native peoples in the vicinity.
mssHM 72175-72177
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Daniel Miller letter to William Miller
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Letter written from Daniel Miller near Petaluma, California, to his brother William in Newburn, Virginia. Miller writes of the difficulties of driving cattle over the Oregon Trail and through the Salt Lake Valley to California, and of cattle that were "likely stolen" by Mormons in Utah. He writes of stopping with the remaining cattle in the valley outside of San Francisco and of the trouble in owning land since "nearly all the country is claimed by grants made by the Mexican Government." He writes of his trip to San Francisco and details the high cost of goods in the area, but notes that he is also selling cattle for good prices. Miller also writes of gold mining and that he plans to avoid the practice since "many thousand dollars worth of [gold] dust...disappears in a few hours at the gambling tables." Miller concludes that "I have as yet not regrets about the move [to California], except the loss of our children" (Miller's three young daughters died during the journey to California).
mssHM 74319
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Ann S. Ludlum letter to Eliza Jane Brown Anderson
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In this letter, Ann S. Ludlum thanks Eliza Jane Brown Anderson for the gift of "the album with the photographs of your husband and family" and relates the news of the mutual friend, Mrs. Colo. Chambliss. She notes that San Antonio, Texas "is improving rapidly," with "things are beginning to resume the appearance of old times," and people in "the country" being "very anxious to resume their political relations with the government."
mssHM 75842
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Daniel Webster fragment of letter to unknown addressee
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This is a fragment (bottom half) of a letter by Daniel Webster. The addressee is unknown as is the date and place of the letter. He mentions "Judge Sprague."
mssHM 79099
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Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff letter
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This letter was written by Ruhmkorff in Paris to an unknown recipient. It is in French and deals with a payment of 1,400 francs.
mssHM 81233
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Daniel M. Evans letter to editors of the People's Advocate
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In this letter, Daniel M. Evans, who was a journalist in London, England before moving to Stockton, California in 1879, is offering his services as a journalist to the Stockton weekly newspaper People's Advocate. The newspaper had just published its first issue and Evans liked it so much that he wanted to work for them.
mssHM 67908