Manuscripts

Stearns, E.-Stribling

Description: 81 folders
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.; donated by Mrs. Kilroy and by Mrs. Susanna Bryant Dakin, 1939.
Associated people: 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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Professional and personal papers of Abel Stearns, including correspondence, 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. Correspondents include Juan Bandini, Cave Johnson Couts, Tomas Eleuterio Estenaga, John Forster, Thomas Oliver Larkin, Perfecto Hugo Reid, Alfred Robinson, and others. Also included are diaries kept in 1879-1905 by Juan Bautista Bandini, son of Juan Bandini, who lived in the Santa Monica area. The collection also contains a group of papers accumulated by John Tracy Gaffey, third husband of Mrs. Abel Stearns. The Gaffey papers contain correspondence, including letters from Stephen Mallory White, papers relating to San Pedro, California and historical sketches. There are also papers related to María Victoria Bartoloméa Comecrabit Reid.
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