Manuscripts

Franklin Walker page from San Francisco's literary frontier :

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Description: One page from Franklin Walker's book San Francisco's literary frontier. Typewritten with handwritten corrections. The text relates to American writer Ambrose Bierce, Christianity, and the Chinese in San Francisco.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1939.
Call number: mssHM 84315
Creator: Walker, Franklin (1900-1978)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of George Fields, August 1939.
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Franklin Dickerson Walker papers

Manuscripts

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera and photographs, mostly pertaining to Walker's biographical research on Jack London (1876-1916). Included within the collection are copies of letters written by Jack London and his wife, Charmian London.

mssHM 45153-45237

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San Francisco's Fire Belle Lilie Hitchcock

Manuscripts

A draft manuscript for "San Francisco's Fire Belle Lillie Hitchcock, mascot of the old San Francisco Knickerbocker Fire Company-no. 5." Also includes an envelope of photographs.

mssHM 19335

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The Emperor of San Francisco: a musical: script

Manuscripts

This typescript is a copy of the script for the musical "The Emperor of San Francisco" written by Franklin Lacey in 1981 (the copy is signed by him). It was written for a cast of 22 actors and is about Joshua Abraham Norton, the celebrated citizen of San Francisco who claimed to be the "Emperor of the United States" in 1859.

mssHM 72320

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Moses Franklin Farnsworth autobiography

Manuscripts

This typescript was copied from a typewritten account owned by Dana Finley. Written by Moses Franklin Farnsworth in 1905, this autobiography gives an account of his life, covering his conversion to Mormonism; frontier and pioneer life in Salt Lake City and Kanab; and his mission trips to England. Other details of particular interest include genealogical information about his five wives and thirty children, stories of his service as a 1st lieutenant in the Nauvoo Legion, and his discussion of the "Co-hab code of Dixie" whereby polygamists could communicate with each other through the use of code words to avoid capture by authorities.

mssHM 66578

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Franklin Augustus Buck Papers

Manuscripts

The papers consist primarily of correspondence written by Franklin A. Buck from 1846 to 1881 to his sister, Mary Sewall Bradley, living in Bucksport, Maine . The collection consists of 225 cataloged items, 1 piece of ephemera, and 150 envelopes. They detail his activities in New York City until early 1849 and then his life in various parts of California and Nevada from 1849 to 1881. Because Franklin regularly addresses his letters and envelopes to his sister as Mary Sewall Bradley and does not include her maiden name, the cataloging of the collection reflects this use. Most of the letters detail Buck's life in California and Nevada between 1849 and 1881, and they document various floods, local and national politics, and the Civil War. The letters also illustrate the nature of frontier and pioneer life, gold and silver mining, ranching, and 19th century social life and customs in California and Nevada. The Weaverville letters also include descriptions of the local Chinese community, and the collection is dotted with comments by Buck on the California and Nevada Indians. The collection also contains five letters from Franklin to his father, Rufus A. Buck, who was also living in Bucksport, maine. There are also six letters to Mary Sewall Bradley from Franklin's younger brother, Sewall Buck, which were written from California between 1851-1854. There is also an exchange of letters between Franklin and a friend named Edwin Kirk in San Francisco, California, in 1852. At the end of the collection is a typed document by Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1868-1966) which discusses the Franklin A. Buck correspondence. Portions of many of the letters were published in A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush: The Letters of Franklin A. Buck, compiled by Katherine A. White (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930).

mssBuck

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My Journey from San Francisco to Liverpool 1872 L.F

Manuscripts

The first 32 pages of the diary relate to the overland part of the journey as the author, probably a young woman, and her mother leave San Francisco to travel to New York by train. The author comments upon her stays in Ogden, Omaha, and Chicago, and her first views of Niagara Falls. The last 10 pages concern their ocean voyage to England. Throughout the entire journey, the author relates detailed stories of her travel companions and their experiences. The initials "L. F." are stamped on the cover and may be the author's initials

mssHM 63952

Franklin Walker page from San Francisco's literary frontier :

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