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Description: Professional and personal papers of Abel Stearns, including corresondence, business records, legal documents, and other manuscripts. The materials in the collection deal with life in California during the Mexican and early statehood periods, including the cattle industry, ranching, real estate, political and social life, and the gold discoveries in Southern California in 1842.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1821-1935.
Call number: mssStearns
Creator: Stearns, Abel (1798-1871)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Correspondents include Juan Bandini, Cave Johnson Couts, Tomas Eleuterio Estenaga, John Forster, Thomas Oliver Larkin, Perfecto Hugo Reid, Alfred Robinson, and others.
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. Margaret Gaffey Kilroy, February 1937.

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donated by Mrs. Kilroy and by Mrs. Susanna Bryant Dakin, 1939.

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Bandini, Juan, (1800-1859.)

Bandini, Juan Bautista. (1821-1874.)

Couts, Cave Johnson, (1814-1882.)

Esténaga, Tomás Eleutério. (1802-1858.)

Forster, John, (1811?-1853.)

Gaffey, John Tracy. (1806-1895.)

Larkin, Thomas Oliver, (1853-1901.)

Reid, Hugo,

Robinson, Alfred,

White, Stephen Mallory,

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