Scope and content Correspondence, accounts, and legal documents pertaining to Lytle's real estate operations and other business ventures and to his tenure in the office of Justice of the Peace of Superintendent of Schools in Washington County, N.Y.; letters from M. R. McWhorter of Milwaukee, telling of his plans to join the Gold Rush (February 1849), and from James Lydon, giving his views on opportunities in the California mines (June 1854); also, one household expense account book of Mary Lytle's family and...

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...

Abstract

Five letters from John Stacy to his wife Dorothy in Port Gibson, N.Y. (1849-1850) discussing his trip to California during the Gold Rush and also Rio de Janeiro and four letters from Nancy Stacy, John's mother, to John and Dorothy from Nevada City, California.