Guide to the C. H. Bucknam Letter MC305

Liz Phillips
University of California, Davis Library, University Archives
2021
1st Floor, Shields Library, University of California
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA
speccoll@ucdavis.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: University of California, Davis Library, University Archives
Title: C. H. Bucknam Letter
Creator: Bucknam, C. H.
Identifier/Call Number: MC305
Physical Description: 1 item 4 pages. Letter has mailing folds. Light soiling, else very good. Fairly legible script. 8 x 5 inches
Date: October 18, 1868
Abstract: Letter from C. H. Bucknam in Sacramento, California to his mother.
Physical Location: Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.

Scope and Contents

Letter from C. H. Bucknam in Sacramento, California to his mother, dated to October 18th, 1868. The letter starts with pleasantries and then Bucknam writes, "I left the mountains two weeks ago come tomorrow. The work got to be most to[sic] dangerous for me. For the last Sunday that I stayed there they killed two men…It was a sad sight to see the old man carried over across the river in a cart and a few Drunken men following on after him he was about sixty years old and had no friends that they could find I would not work that Sunday perhaps if I had shown(?) [I would] have been served the same." He then goes on to speak about seeing Capt. Johnson and Capt. James Humphery. He also saw a Mr. Chamberlin Mill(?) on his first trip as purser of the new Steamer Santa Cruz. He speaks of not having money to take the last steamer home, and then how he "should go back this boat but I am afraid the small pox might break out on board and it would be bad in hot weather." The SS Santa Cruz, mentioned in Bucknam's letter, was in use from 1868 to 1924 and was a 133-foot wood-hulled passenger cargo steamer built in San Francisco. The steamer Santa Cruz was owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company from 1876-1911, and the Puget Sound Salvage Company from 1911-1924 (Marla Daily, Islapedia Online).
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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], C. H. Bucknam Letter, MC305, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sacramento (Calif.) -- History
Michael and Margaret B. Harrison Western Research Center