Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Don Abel Stearns
- Description
- Photograph of an engraving of Abel Stearns.
- Call number
- photCL Pierce 08261
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A view of the residence of Abel Stearns.
photCL Pierce 01324
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Manuscripts
Letter from Isaac Sparks to Abel Stearns in which Sparks asks Stearns to pay Maria S. Navaro $12-15 per month until he hears from Sparks again. He also writes that he has settled an account with A.B. Thompson.
mssHM 73668
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Manuscripts
Personal and business correspondence of Abel Stearns, chiefly letters addressed to him. Also included are several documents and receipts for merchandise.
mssHM 57166-57209
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Manuscripts
Personal and business correspondence of Abel Stearns, chiefly letters addressed to him. Also included are several documents and receipts for merchandise.
mssHM 57166-57209
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Manuscripts
Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Note: Followed by copy of letter from Job Green to Abel Stearns, dated January 11, 1822
HM 49058
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Manuscripts
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.
mssStearns