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Maude Toll correspondence : ALS, 1882-1892.
BANC MSS 2002/196 czLOCAL
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Title:

Maude Toll correspondence : ALS, 1882-1892

Creator/Contributor:

Toll, Maude., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Laird, Herbert F.

Creator/Contributor:

Taylor, Thomas, -1888

Creator/Contributor:

Taylor, Sarah Alice.

Creator/Contributor:

Taylor, Christopher Thomas.

Creator/Contributor:

Taylor, Geoffrey Houghton.

Creator/Contributor:

Taylor, Marie E.

Creator/Contributor:

Taylor, Nellie.

Creator/Contributor:

Laird, Luella.

Creator/Contributor:

Toll, R. O.

Abstract:

Contains letters from Herbert F. Laird to Miss Maude Toll during their courtship and early marriage. Laird describes activities organizing ranch hands, scouting land claims, including cost and soil condition, travel in Calif. and Ariz., and wedding plans. Also contains letters from Maude's family and friends including father Thomas Taylor (with his last will and testament), siblings Alice Taylor, Christopher Thomas Taylor, Jeff Taylor, Marie E. Taylor and Nellie Taylor, her mother Mrs. J.C. Toll, brother R.O. Toll and sister-in-law Luella Laird.

Date:

1882 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-us-az
Ranching -- California
Surveying -- California -- History -- Sources
Soils -- Quality -- California -- Sources
Weddings -- California -- Planning
Courtship -- California -- History
Ranching -- Californie
Sols -- Qualité -- Californie -- Sources
Noces -- Californie -- Planification
Amours -- Californie -- Histoire
Courtship
Ranching
Soils -- Quality
Surveying
Travel
Weddings -- Planning
California -- Description and travel -- Sources
Arizona -- Description and travel -- Sources
Californie -- Descriptions et voyages -- Sources
Arizona -- Descriptions et voyages -- Sources
Arizona
California

Note:

Includes 2 black and white photographs, of Marie E. Taylor, and of Christopher Thomas Taylor.
Maude Toll a resident of Santa Cruz, Calif., married Herbert F. Laird in 1890. They had a son Kenneth Laird in 1891. Maude Toll is also known as Bertha Maude Toll, Bertha Maude Taylor and Maude Laird (Mrs. H.F. Laird).

Type:

History.
Sources.

Physical Description:

print
1 box (.4 linear ft.)

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 2002/196 czLOCAL

Origin:

California