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Title: Polly Welts Kaufman collection
Dates: 1986-2015
Collection Call Number: mssKaufmancollection
Creator OR Collector:
Kaufman, Polly Welts, 1929-
Extent:
Approximately 263 items
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Research material used by Polly W. Kaufman for her 1994 edition of Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from
San Francisco, 1849-1856.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
please go to following
web site .
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item], Polly Welts Kaufman collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
The collection was a gift of Polly Welts Kaufman, September 2015.
Dr. Polly W. Kaufman published a new edition of Robert Glass Cleland's 1949 book Apron full of gold, which tells the story
of California pioneer Mary Jane Megquier, in 1994. Kaufman's edition includes the full text of each letter and a new introduction.
This collection contains the research material Polly W. Kaufman used for her 1994 edition of Apron full of gold. It includes
notes, correspondence, photocopies of letters and clippings, magazine clippings, book reviews, photographs, genealogy research,
and notecards.
Arrangement
The original order was kept by the cataloger. The collection is housed in one box.
Cleland, Robert Glass, 1885-1957
Kaufman, Polly Welts, 1929-
Megquier, Mary Jane, 1813-1899
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Frontier and pioneer life -- California
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Women -- California -- Correspondence
Women pioneers -- California -- Correspondence
California -- Gold discoveries
California -- History -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 21st century
Research (document genres) -- United States -- 20th century