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Covarrubias House documents
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Grant Jackson collection
Manuscripts
The collection consists of manuscripts gathered by Los Angeles collector Grant Jackson which chiefly relate to California and the history of California. Of note in the collection are materials by John A. Sutter, Pío Pico, José Maria Covarrubias, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and William Wallace Brier. There is a group of letters and the logbook of the schooner "D.B. Keeler" by William S. Emery. It includes the business papers of the Lompoc Valley Land Co., three documents related to enslaved people in Kentucky and Missouri, and a Seminole Indian blood roll dated 1896. The collection also contains twelve maps for the period 1870 to 1880.
mssJacksong
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Commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour
Manuscripts
The commonplace book of Mary Alice Seymour containing journal entries, newspaper clippings, stories, and pressed flowers. Some items date as early as 1837. The last entry is dated 1896.
mssHM 63807
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Covarrubias, [Ines]. To [José] Matías Moreno
Manuscripts
Boxes 1-17 consist mainly of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts to and from José Matías Moreno. Some subjects include the history of his Rancho Guadalupe in northern Baja California; politics in Baja California and American economic and political influence there; filibustering; ranchos and land sales; commerce and shipping along the California coast; mining; and the social and domestic history of the Californios. Boxes 23-26 consist of additional oversize correspondence, documents, and manuscripts at the end of the collection. Note: At the end of Box 15, there are facsimiles, translations, and a group of loose notes and fragments. The notes and fragments appear to be a working translation. These folders do not have an HLG call number.
HLG 117
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Documents; Correspondence; Map; Ephemera
Manuscripts
This collection is divided into two main parts, both arranged chronologically: Documents and Correspondence. Both series relate to the Wiley Gold Mining Company. James Thompson's name or signature appears on a majority of the documents. The documents include stock certificates, indentures, mining claim agreements, certificates of location and labor, company by-laws, warranty deeds, and receipts between various members of the company, and they are drawn in Lida, Nevada; Kansas City, Missouri; and Phoenix, Arizona. With documents that contain more than one date, the date of signature is used in cataloging. The correspondence includes business letters between employees of the company, as well as letters from officers of the company to potential investors. Several of the letters also include bills for supplies, expenses, and labor. The correspondence contains letters from Big Pine, California; Kansas City, Missouri; Lida, Nevada; and Phoenix, Arizona. There are also two folders of ephemera, one containing two printed sketch maps of Nevada and one containing various printed material such as newsletters and pamphlets related to the Wiley Gold Mining Company and to other mining companies in the area. The latter folder also contains a blank "Articles of Incorporation" form.
mssHM 72181-72222
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Docket
Manuscripts
The docket lists cases involving the Justices of the Peace of Tuolumne County, California, from 1855 to 1857. The docket includes the following information for each case: date, type, proceedings of court, names of individuals involved, actions taken, fees and decisions. There is an alphabetical index at the beginning of the volume.
mssHM 68199
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Collection of letters and documents relating to the colonial Pennsylvania
Manuscripts
Extra-illustrated volume containing ten manuscripts dealing with the colonial Pennsylvania. With engraved portraits of William Penn, by W.G. Armstrong (1877) and George II from Rapin's History of England (J. & J. Gundeee, Albion Press, London 1815).
mssHM 25327-25336