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Charles Hayward Brooks memoir

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Description: This typescript of a memoir by Charles Brooks only contains six pages (presumably from a longer, more complete manuscript) that covers Brooks' time living in Placer County, including his father and uncle's experience with mining, the mercantile business, his remembrances of San Francisco, his journey back to Vermont, and later trips back to California.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: before 1960.
Call number: mssHM 84068
Creator: Brooks, Charles Hayward(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Kelsey Hall, May 2003.
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William E. Brooks letter to Anna P. Brooks

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Letter from William E. Brooks to his mother Anna P. Brooks in Worcester, Massachusetts, written from the Standard Mines in Graham County, Arizona. In the letter Brooks writes of a flood in the area of Clifton and Metcalf which had temporarily washed away the railway line and partially shut down mining operations. He also writes of his walks, local scenery, and other aspects of his daily activities.

mssHM 74519

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Stephen Brooks letter to Henry Brooks

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In this letter to his brother Henry, Stephen Brooks writes of debts incurred while opening a store in San Francisco. He misses the comforts of life and the life of society, and plans to stay in California for one year. Letterhead is an image of "View of San Francisco, February 1850."

mssHM 16539

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Noah Brooks letter to the Northwestern Literary and Historical Society

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Brooks expresses his honor and gratitude for being elected an honorary member of the Society, an organization based in Sioux City, Iowa. Includes a newspaper clipping with a brief biography of Brooks.

mssHM 29222

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Mary Jane Brooks letters to Thomas and Priscilla Marsh

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In this first letter (HM 19797, dated 1853, September 14), Mary Jane Brooks describes her journey to California "according to agreement" to her sister Priscilla and her husband Thomas Marsh. Much of this letter contains Brooks' description of Kingston, Jamaica, where she stopped en route to California. She laments that she has not yet found a man to run away with her. HM 19798, written August 12, 1886, and includes an envelope. Brooks is still in San Francisco, and writes of people she is seeing and letters written and received. The last letter in this sequence was written 1886, September 2. Brooks writes that she has reached her sixtieth birthday, but feels "old beyond my years." She discusses the possibility of getting her share of the farmstead left by her father, and hopes her sister will cooperate.

mssHM 19797-19799

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Journal and memoirs of Thomas Atkinson

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A group of manuscripts of Thomas Atkinson, including his journal, a memoir of his journey to America, a letter addressed to R.H Alcock (1882, Nov. 20), his seaman's certificate, and a photograph taken in the early 1880s.

mssHM 68457-68460

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Mary Jane Brooks letter to Priscilla Marsh and family

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In this letter to her sister and her sister's family, Mary Jane Brooks asks for news of home, such as if their father has paid off his house yet, and any other family news. Brooks is currently living in a house and has several boarders. Her brother, Aaron, has "gone to the mines" and as a result, Brooks has much more to do without him there to help. Incomplete, as letter is first two pages only.

mssHM 19796

Charles Hayward Brooks memoir

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