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Dering (Richard) Letters
MSS 0250
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Richard Dering Letters
Creator:
Dering, N. Richard, -1873
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0250
Physical Description:
.4 Linear feet
(1 archives box)
Date (inclusive): 1858 - 1879
Abstract: Letters providing a detailed account of Dering's activities and travels in Sonora, Baja California, the islands of the Gulf
of California, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. Written principally from Isla Elide, Georges Island, Guaymas, Magdalena
Bay, and San Francisco.
Languages:
English
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Richard Dering Letters. MSS 250. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Digital copies of this material are intended to support research, teaching, and private study. This work may be used without
prior permission. The original manuscripts for this collection are held by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
An agent of the Lower California Company, Dering was an early settler at Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico originally
from Sag Harbor, New York. He was active in the orchilla and guano trades, and also lived in San Francisco. Dering died at
Magdalena Bay on 16 March 1873.
Scope and Content of Collection
Letters providing a detailed account of Dering's activities and travels in Sonora, Baja California, the islands of the Gulf
of California, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. Written principally from Isla Elide, Georges Island, Guaymas, Magdalena
Bay, and San Francisco. Includes 63 letters from Dering to his sisters, Frances M. Dering and Elizabeth P. Dering of Sag Harbor,
and 7 letters between Elizabeth and others following his death.
This collection has been digitized.
This collection was digitized in 2016 for inclusion in the Adam Matthew subscription database Frontier Life: borderlands,
settlement & colonial encounters.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Manuscripts -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
Manuscripts -- Mexico -- Magdalena Bay
Manuscripts -- California -- San Francisco
Lower California Company
Dering, Elizabeth P. -- Correspondence