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Alonzo A. Hill letters : San Francisco, Calif. to Comfort Searle, Rindge, N.H., 1851-1853.
BANC MSS 2007/66LOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Alonzo A. Hill letters: San Francisco, Calif. to Comfort Searle, Rindge, N.H., 1851-1853

Creator/Contributor:

Hill, Alonzo A., 1800-1871, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Searle, Comfort.

Creator/Contributor:

Whitney, John C., fl. 1852

Abstract:

Contains 3 letters to a friend back home communicating the doings of other members of their company of miners and business in San Francisco. By 1853 Hill has become a police officer in San Francisco, William Gill has returned to the states but is planing a return to California, another is working as a clerk in Sacramento and another is still working in the mines near Hangtown, Calif. Letter of July 12, 1852 also addressed to John C. Whitney.

Date:

1851 (issued)

Subject:

Gold miners -- California
Gold mines and mining -- California
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Commerce

Note:

In English.

Physical Description:

print

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 2007/66LOCAL

Origin:

California