J. Ross Browne Collection
J. Ross Browne Collection
Collection number: MSS 108
Holt-Atherton Department of Special CollectionsUniversity of the Pacific Library
Stockton, California
- Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
- University Library, University of the Pacific
- Stockton, CA 95211
- Phone: (209) 946-2404
- URL: https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections
- Processed by:
- Silvia Guzman
- Date Completed:
- February 2011
- Encoded by:
- Michael Wurtz and Silvia Guzman
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Biographical Material
1:1 - Photograph of J. Ross Browne's home, California Historical Society, San Francisco.
1:2 - Shipping receipt from New York to San Francisco dated 15 March 1851.
1:3 - Society of California Pioneers, Opposition Ticket, (J. Ross Browne was a candidate).
1:4 - Oakland Tribune Knave, article on J. Ross Browne and his home, January 22, 1961.
1:5 - Ticket to J. Ross Browne's lecture on Iceland, August 29, 1863.
1:6 - John Ross Browne California Pioneer Check-List of First Editions , by Miriam E. Lone, 1930.
1:7 - J. Ross Browne: A Biography , by Francis J. Rock, 1929, (dissertation).
Correspondence
2:1 - Browne to Gregory Yale Esq., August 20, 1863.
2:2 - Browne to James A. Garfield, June 20, 1866.
2:3 - William Seward to H. B. Anthony, April 4, 1868.
2:4 - Browne to Adolph Sutro, November 29, 1871.
2:5 - Browne to Aldoph Sutro, undated.
Publications
3:1 - Reclamation of Marsh and Swamp Lands and Projected Canals for Irrigation in California , addressed to the Legislature of California by J. Ross Browne, 1872.
3:2 - The Reclamation of Salt Marsh Lands on Sonoma and Napa Creeks , (contains printed letter reviewing the project by J. Ross Browne), 1872.
3:3 - Indian war in Oregon and Washington Territories . 35th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, includes report from J. Browne, 1858.
3:4 - 36th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Report of the Secretary of the Interior, [concerning Indian affairs in California] includes report from J. Ross Browne, 1860.
3:5 - Bodie and Esmeralda Being An Account of the Revival of Affairs … , May 1878, by Joseph Wasson, (includes a report by J. Ross Browne).
3:6 - Lower California: Its Geography and Characteristics , 1868.
3:7 - The Policy of Extending Local Aid to Railroads , 1870, by J. Ross Browne.
3:8 - Postscript to the San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser , Nov. 28, 1874, (article by J. Ross Browne on "Hubert H. Bancroft and His Literacy Undertaking").
3:9 - Postscript Number Two to the San Francisco Newsletter and California Advertiser, Sept. 11, 1876. "Address to the Territorial Pioneers of California," by J. Ross Browne.
3:10 - Considerations in the Reference to the Establishment of a National School of Mines , 1867.
3:11 - “The Walker River Country,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, June-Novemebr 1865.