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Alonso Ridley letter to Dona Isabel del Valle
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Juan Comapla letter to Dona Isabel del Valle
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Letter from Father Juan Comapla to Dona Isabel del Valle asking for the date of "the anniversary" and stating that he will only be able to bring a singer, but that the children should make up the difference. In Spanish. Includes handwritten English translation.
mssHM 72991
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Edward Robeson Taylor letter to Mr. Prang
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In this letter to Mr. Prang written on letterhead of the Mayor's Office, City and County of San Francisco, Taylor thanks Prang for his kind birthday letter. He thinks the mayoral election on November 5, 1907 will go well, as he believes that the people seem to be for him while all the politicians are not. Taylor asks Prang to remember him to his wife and says that he is sending a copy of his selected poems that were published on the anniversary of the fire.
mssHM 29265
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A. B. Chapman letter to "my dear wife,"
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Letter written by A.B. Chapman to his wife shortly after his arrival in Coronado, California. Chapman writes of the favorable comparison between rail and buggy travel, of his journey down the coast, and of his impressions of the Hotel del Coronado.
mssHM 73659
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Philip Deidesheimer letter to Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro
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Letter from Philip Deidesheimer in Virginia City, Nevada, to Adolph Sutro. Deidesheimer writes of his desire to see Sutro and asks him to come back to Virginia City as soon as he can. He also writes of the mines in Nevada, including that "there is mutiny near" at the Ophir Mine. He also writes that he hopes to be made one of the Sutro Tunnel Commissioners, of his invention of the timbering system, that he "never dreamed" of patenting the system "until of late," and asks Sutro to inquire into patenting the design for him, noting that "if I could yet get a patent it would bring me an income of at least one million...dollars a year."
mssHM 29230
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Alpheus B. Thompson letters to Timothy Wolcott
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These three letters were written by Alpheus Thompson to Timothy Wolcott during 1856 and 1857. In HM 18997, written 1856, September 6, from Santa Barbara, Thompson thanks Wolcott for looking after his son, Francis. In HM 18998 (dated 1857, June 2), Thompson writes of the advantageous opportunities in San Francisco in the real estate market, and asks Wolcott to look after Francis "for a few months longer." He also includes business details regarding property and other assets. The final letter in this series was written in San José, California, on June 17, 1857 (HM 18999), and Thompson asks if Wolcott would take Francis under his charge, and to "provide him with suitable Clothing and Board."
mssHM 18997-18999
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Horace Bell letters to Lewis C. Granger and Belle Granger Ekman
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Six letters sent by Horace Bell in Los Angeles to Lewis C. Granger and his sister Belle Granger Ekman between 1870 and 1893. In the first letter to Granger, dated 1870, Bell writes of his family life since 1862, of a lack of heirs and titles in the Gray estate and of his plans to "let the matter go to the state." In 1872 he writes of deciding not to sell his house for his wife's sake and of his son's education; in 1882 he notes "I am grieved at your silence;" in 1885 he writes of being busy in the Superior Court and of a land matter relating to Granger; and in 1887 writes that the "world of rascality here has combined under the leadership of G. Wiley Wells employed by E.J. Baldwin, to brake [sic] down my paper...and disgrace me." He further notes that "this arrant [sic] scoundrel" Wells had gone to Oroville, where Granger lived, and asks Granger to watch him and to send Bell his own recollection's of Bell's time in Oroville between 1852 and 1858. Included is a newspaper clipping with a derogatory story about Bell, which calls him a "drunken debauchee, [who] frequently found his way into the chain-gang," among other things. The final letter was sent to Belle Granger Ekman in 1893, and in it Bell thanks her for sending him a book on the Granger family, and advises her to "take the original biographical sketch and have it published in a neat centerable book."
mssHM 30938-30943