Manuscripts

Sinclair, Marjorie: correspondence regarding Tiburcio Vasquez

Description: Two letters about the activities of outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez in the 1870s and a document of excerpted material from "Scouting on Two Continents" by Frederick Russell Burnham.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1930
Call number: mssSinclairhh
Creator: Sinclair, Henry Harbinson (1858-1914)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Arthur W. Sinclair and Marjorie Sinclair, children of H.H. Sinclair, 1936.
Associated people: Cowper, Thomas, (1712-1778.)

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Manuscripts

The Henry H. Sinclair papers number more than 1,600 items, including diaries, journals, newspaper clippings, and extensive personal and business correspondence. The complete date range is 1802-1937 (bulk dates 1909-1914). Subject matter includes mostly business matters of the Great Western Power Company, Palmer Oil Company, Mt. Hood Railway and Power Company, etc.; diaries and notebooks concerning power plant inspection trips, mostly to the Kern River in California; the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association; the California to Honolulu yacht races. The collection also includes the papers of his son, Arthur W. Sinclair, pertaining to California Delta Farms, Inc. The collection also contains a diploma from Sinclair's membership in the American Institute of Electric Engineers and a manuscript, by Englishman Thomas Cowper, of calculations regarding a solar eclipse on June 24, 1778.

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Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair

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Correspondents include: Brown, Frank L. and the Brown Walker Simmons Company; Clark, C.M.; Barbour, F.F.; Clark, E.P.; Dicey, E.C.; Finkle, F.C.; Gillis, R.C.; Hawley, Edwin; Jardine, John ; Josselyn, B.S. ; Lewis, John H.; Macy, Lloyd; and Wilson, H.P.

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Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair

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Brief letter from James McLachlan.

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Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair

Manuscripts

Correspondents include: Adams, James H.; Brown, Frank L.; Chase, Henry L.; Cone, W.S.; Cook, Harold S.; Dicey, E.C. ; Edminson, J.W.; Ellis, George B.; Fisher, Henry; Great Western Power Co.; Hubbard, A.G.; Jardine, John; Johnson, Milbank ; Miller, John B.; Miller, John B. ; Montgomery, Charles C.; Phillips, John R.; Robinson, Henry M.; Schaefer, L.P.; Stimson, George W. ; Thornley, Julian; Ward, George M. and Wilson, H.P.

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Misc. correspondence: Sinclair not sender or recipient

Manuscripts

Various documents including business correspondence, informal financial notes and one form letter from a homeowner group to the City of Pasadena.

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Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair

Manuscripts

Correspondents include: Bennett, Ralph (consulting engineer); Burritt, Elizabeth S. (Berkeley, CA); Cone, W.S. (United States, Department of the Interior, Reclamation Service); Cox & Stevens, New York, NY (yacht sales & charters); Duke, Minnie W.; Dupuy, E.J. (Executive Secretary-International Engineering Congress, 1915); Ellis, George B. (Union Home Telephone & Telegraph Corporation); Fleming, Clarence S. ; Franklin, Blake (Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. of California); Gent, Charles Robert (Union Power Camp, San Bernardino County); Gielow & Orr (yacht brokers) ; Harris, Ford W. (consulting engineer, Los Angeles); Hendrie, G.W. (W.C. Hendrie Rubber Co., Torrance, CA); Hendrie, W.C. (W.C. Hendrie Rubber Co., Torrance, CA); Hobron, Thomas (San Francisco); Holbrook, H.M. ; Huntington Land & Improvement Company, Pacific Electric Building; International Electrical Congress, San Francisco; International Engineering Congress, 1915 (San Francisco, CA); Kato, Frank (writing from his home in Japan); Kaufman, Milton; Montgomery, Charles (Martin & Montgomery, Lawyers, Los Angeles, CA); Rizer, H. ?. (United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC); Rugg, J.M. (Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank, Los Angeles, CA); Scharff, E. Jr. (Union Home Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, Los Angeles); Sterling, E.C. (Torrance, Marshall & Company, Los Angeles, CA); Torrance, Marshall & Company, Los Angeles, Ca; Western Union Telegraph Company; Wright, C.L. (First National Bank of Long Beach).

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Sinclair, Marjorie: correspondence regarding Tiburcio Vasquez

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