Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
My First Christmas in Nevada, Manuscript, Undated
MS.566
No online items
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: "My first Christmas in Nevada" Manuscript
Creator:
anonymous
Identifier/Call Number: MS.566
Physical Description:
21 pages
(1 folder)
Date: undated
Abstract: Presumably the account is of the author's own experience. Manuscript includes 21 pages of an incomplete and handwritten account.
The account is about a girl, presumably the author, growing up in England and going to America after the death of her mother
to live with her older sister and brother-in-law. The manuscript ends with her on a train before her arrival to Nevada on
Christmas day. The name of the author is unknown.
Language of Material:
English
.
Presumably the account is of the author's own experience. The account is of a young woman born and raised in England. Her
father died when she was a baby and her mother was in delicate health so she was largely raised by her sister, Edith, who
was ten years older than the author. She also had a brother Edwin who married when the author was ten and moved to Scotland.
Edith married when the author was 15 and moved to America - somewhere west of the Rocky Mountains says the author - possibly
California. Her mother died when the author was 18. The author decided to go to America to live with her sister and brother-in-law.
She describes leaving her old home, taking a steamer from Liverpool, England, resting with friends in New York and then taking
the train West.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is
given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Appointments to view materials are required. To make an appointment please visit
https://theautry.org/research-collections/library-and-archives and fill out the Researcher Application Form.
Unknown, possibly pulled from MS.4 George Wharton James collection held at the Braun Research Library, Autry Museum of the
American West.
"My first Christmas in Nevada" Manuscript, undated, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.566.
Manuscript includes 21 pages of an incomplete and handwritten account. The account is about a girl, presumably the author,
growing up in England and going to America after the death of her mother to live with her older sister and brother-in-law.
The manuscript ends with her on a train before her arrival to Nevada on Christmas day.
Processing of collection and publication of finding aid made possible by a grant from the National Historical Publications
and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration
Immigrants -- Nevada
Manuscripts
Ocean travel
Nevada -- History -- Sources
Christmas
Nevada