Manuscripts

Invoices, receipts, and other financial records

Description: This collection contains correspondence, receipts, invoices, financial records, and legal documents relating to the shipwreck, salvage, and repair of the American merchant ship Morning Glory. Also included is a 44-page consular protest and survey dossier compiled by the United States Consulate in Valparaiso, Chile. These materials document early trade and shipping networks between British Columbia, Washington Territory, San Francisco, Chile, and Peru during the Fraser River Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1859-1860
Call number: mssMG
Provenance: Purchased from Globus Books LLC, December 2025.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Correspondence, receipts, and legal documents

Manuscripts

This collection contains correspondence, receipts, invoices, financial records, and legal documents relating to the shipwreck, salvage, and repair of the American merchant ship Morning Glory. Also included is a 44-page consular protest and survey dossier compiled by the United States Consulate in Valparaiso, Chile. These materials document early trade and shipping networks between British Columbia, Washington Territory, San Francisco, Chile, and Peru during the Fraser River Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada.

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Correspondence, receipts, and legal documents

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Morning Glory merchant ship records

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Survey of Morning Glory ship in Callao, Peru

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Financial Records: Invoices and Receipts (1921-1929). 62 items

Manuscripts

There are 8,002 pieces of manuscripts, 6,044 of which are by Annie C. Bill. The manuscripts comprise of articles, drafts, essays, excerpts, notebooks, proofs, speeches, statements, and miscellaneous notes. There are 7,218 pieces of correspondence, 1,629 of which are by Annie C. Bill; most of her correspondence comprises of incomplete drafts of letters. The majority of the correspondence includes letters by her publisher, A.A. Beauchamp, Deputy Advisor, John V. Dittemore, officers, and students relating to her religious movement. There are 2,129 pieces of ephemera, the majority being related to Annie C. Bill. The first part of the ephemera is applications, brochures, fliers, and tracts that are arranged according to Bill's religious organization that she joined or led. The remaining ephemera consists of an appointment book, British Museum copyright receipts, Bill's British passport, calling cards, circular letters, empty envelopes, financial records, a greeting card, Kelly's Directors LTD., legal documents, miscellaneous ephemera, newspaper clippings, periodicals, photographs, postcards, and reprints.

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