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Adriana Haynes Physick letter to Lyttleton Physick
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Emma King letter to Arthur Lee Kellogg
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Writing to "my dear little Artie," Emma King congratulates her nephew on his fifth birthday.
mssHM 4278
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Noah Haynes Swayne letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Letter from Noah Haynes Swayne to Odgen Hoffman, sent from Washington, D.C. Swayne thanks Hoffman for sending him a letter and pamphlet, and remarks on "the Roland case."
mssHM 19023
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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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Sarah Siddons letter to Patty Wilkinson
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One-page fragment of a signed letter in which Siddons communicates that she will be staying with Lady Barrington, who was mourning the death of her son, until she is "wanted in Edinborough." The letter is addressed "To Miss Wilkinson."
mssHM 11385
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Lucy Stoddard Wakefield letter to "Lucius & Rebecca"
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Lucy Wakefield writes to her friends Lucius and Rebecca, describing her environment in the mining town of Placerville, California. Like many others who arrived for the Gold Rush, she would like to stay in California permanently. Her shop has been doing well, and she has been making twenty dozen pies per week, all on her own. Of living in California, where she has been for two and a half years, she writes "there is no way for a woman to make money except by hard work of some sort." Lucy hopes to see her friends in California soon. Dated 1851, September 18-25.
mssHM 16386
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Lydia H. Burns letter to Polly Hall
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In this letter dated sometime in June, 1854, Lydia Burns Hall writes to her sister, Polly Hall. She remains unmarried, and is concerned she may eventually marry someone who will not be kind to her. Her life as a single woman is hard, but she thinks "their is better dayes acoming." On reverse of letter is a pictorial lettersheet containing John Sutter's account of "the first discovery of the Gold" and a view of Sutter's Mill
mssHM 3207