Finding Aid for My first Christmas in Nevada manuscript, undated MS.566
Finding aid prepared by Anna Liza Posas
Autry National Center, Braun Research Library
2011 October 2
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Los Angeles, CA, 90065-5030
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Title: My first Christmas in Nevada
Identifier/Call Number: MS.566
Contributing Institution:
Autry National Center, Braun Research Library
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
21.0 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 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.
creator:
anonymous
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 the old home, taking a steamer from Liverpool, resting with friends in New York and then taking the
train for the West.
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Unknown, possibly pulled from MS.4 George Wharton James collection held at the Braun Research Library, Autry National Center.
My first Christmas in Nevada manuscript undated, Braun Research Library, Autry National Center, 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 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
Christmas
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration
Immigrants -- Nevada
Manuscripts
Nevada
Nevada -- History -- Sources
Ocean travel