California -- Description and travel.
Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
David Fay Edwards papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064714433]
Identifier: 1209
Scope and content
Letters and journals of David Fay Edwards of Lisle, New York, describing experiences as a seminary student and later as a teacher in Illinois, a trip to California, family matters and genealogical notes. Also, two copies of VALIANT FOR TRUTH: LIFE, LETTERS AND DIARIES OF DAVID FAY EDWARDS by his nephew, Richard Henry Edwards (1952), and notes regarding Edwards's biography.
Dates:
1843-1952.
James Stephenson letters
Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243093]
Identifier: 22
Scope and content
Letters to his wife Maria, written as he traveled to California during the Gold Rush; describes fire on an Ohio River steamer, and mentions plans to abandon the Gold Rush and locate on a farm in northern Illinois.
Dates:
1850.
Robert Pollock letters
Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240453]
Identifier: 805
Scope and content
Four letters by Pollock to a brother in Scotland; the first from Lake Mills, Wisconsin including instructions on how to prepare for emigration, advice as to costs, prices, clothing, household utensils, and other matters, and advice as to the exact procedures to be followed on the trip from New York, Albany, Buffalo, and the West in order to escape "runners," and to avoid the dangers facing uninformed immigrants; the second letter from Cambridge, Wisconsin describing his failure as a grain...
Dates:
1848-1869.
W. H. Purdy papers
Collection — Manuscript box 23 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244455]
Identifier: 338
Scope and content
Handwritten manuscript titled "Trip to California" by W.H. Purdy.
Dates:
1900-1906.