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August F. W. Partz letter to C. Elton Buck
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Glenn W. Herrick letter to Anna C. Stryke
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In this letter, Glenn Herrick describes a trip to California and apologizes for not making it to Miss Stryke's home in Pasadena. He goes on to document a visit to Redondo Beach and Rose Hill in Southern California. He and his wife then traveled by train to San Jose. They traveled to Palo Alto to see Stanford University and had a chance meeting with David Starr Jordan with whom during a half hour chat "couldn't get away from his peace ideas." He entreats Miss Stryke to see the University and compares it with Cornell. They travel to San Francisco and find luxuriously apartments on Nob Hill only a block away from Leland Stanford's former residence. Mr. Herrick and his wife find San Francisco more interesting than Los Angeles, but much colder. He advises that when Miss Stryke visits San Francisco that she look for rooms West of Market Street. In closing, he apologizes for missing the visit in Pasadena.
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Thomas F. Seward letter to Lucy F. Seward
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In this letter to his wife, Thomas F. Seward writes that wages have fallen in California, calling twenty-five to fifty dollars a month "extraordinary." His job, however, is safe, as he is good at it. He writes of a recent event where a man killed another for not allowing him to marry his daughter. The murderer has been hanged. A second murder soon followed. Seward also writes of a fire in the city, and reports of similar recent blazes in Marysville and Sacramento. A ship from China brought cholera with it, and many in the city have gotten sick. He has received the daguerrotype sent from home, and writes, "I have got the Home Fever to night - the worse kind." Small booklet, bound in red paper.
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G. W. Buckmore letter to George Gaulet
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In this letter, Buckmore talks a lot about the climate of California, his business, gold mining, crime in San Francisco, the deaths of some of his friends, and the lumber trade in California and Oregon. He also advises his friend to urge people to not come to California unless they have the means to survive.
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Samuel W. Messerne letter
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In the letter, which is written from the mining town of Murderer's Bar and addressed to "Theodore," Messerne advises his friend not to come up to the Northern California mines unless he can find himself a good business partner; he also requests that he bring "some sulphur and cream of tarter."
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F. Lyle Lyman correspondence
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The letters relate the story of Lyman's trip from Illinois to Dawson, Yukon Territory. His first stops were in Seattle and Vancouver; he finally arrived in Skagway, Alaska on March 3rd, after which he and his friend made their way through the Chilkoot Pass to Dawson. Although Lyman did not do much mining, he does talk about the miners whom he met. He briefly mentions a scheme to make money, but never gives further details. His letters describe the difficulties of hiking through the snow and bad weather (although he found the Chilkoot Pass less dangerous than he had expected); an avalanche which killed several people; the other travelers he encountered; the dangers of rafting down the Whitehorse rapids; and the conditions of the mining towns of Dyea and Dawson. There is one letter to Lyman from his mother. The group also includes a cabinet photograph of F. Lyle Lyman and four newspaper clippings regarding gold mining in the Klondike.
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Edwin F. Littlefield letter to Alvah Littlefield
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Edwin reports that he traveled to Sacramento and sold some of the herbs sent by Alvah. He hopes to sell the rest soon, though he describes business in general as dull. The rest of the letter is concerned with shipments of various goods.
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