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  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Provenance
  • Cataloger's Notes
  • Separated Materials
  • Biographical Note on Augustin W. Hale
  • Biographical Note on Elisha Hale
  • Hale Family Tree
  • Scope and Content
  • Arrangement
  • Indexing: Added Entries
  • Indexing: Subjects
  • Bibliography
    • Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library
    Title: Augustin W. Hale Papers
    Identifier/Call Number: mssHale papers.
    Physical Description: 15.6 Linear Feet (29 boxes, 8 folders, 2 volumes)
    Date (inclusive): 1775-1909
    Date (bulk): 1830-1859
    Abstract: This collection contains the papers of Augustin Ward Hale (1814-1902), as well as family members in New York, New Jersey, California, and Nevada, with the bulk dating from 1830 to 1859. Manuscripts chiefly reflect Hale's business ventures in California, including the business and financial records of the following companies: Magnetic Mining Company, New England Mining and Trading Company, San Joaquin Diving Bell Company, San Joaquin Railroad Company, Saucelito Water Company, Sierra Nevada Flour Mills, Stanislaus Central Bridge Company, and the Tuolumne Hydraulic Association. Correspondence and documents also relate to Hale's father, businessman and inventor Elisha Hale. Correspondence also relates to Augustin and his life in California and Nevada mining towns from 1849 to 1894.
    Language of Material: English.

    Access

    Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.

    Publication Rights

    The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item]. Augustin W. Hale Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

    Provenance

    Purchased from Dorothy Sloan Rare Books Auction 2, Part 2, lot 133, October 25, 1994.

    Cataloger's Notes

    1. All instances of Augustin's handwriting on any item for which he is not listed as author (autograph notes, signatures, etc.) are noted under his name in the "Added Entries."
    2. The addressee "Hale Family" was used to indicate letters addressed to multiple Hale family members. The family members often wrote letters addressed to "Dear Friends," or "Dear Mother, Sisters, Brothers, etc.," or "Dear Sisters, Brothers, Nephew, etc."; these letters were meant for the entire family and would be passed around among the family members to be read. It was decided to use the addressee "Hale Family" to keep these letters together and for ease of cataloging.
    3. After he received a letter from someone, Elisha Hale would copy his reply on the same sheet, so his letters often have multiple letters written on them (a letter could also include replies to several addressees). He also kept copies of his letters to various people on one sheet of paper. These are noted in the finding aid and on the folders.
    4. The following subjects are not subject indexed in the finding aid due to their prevalence in the collection: Bishop William Kip, Sacramento, San Francisco, and gold mining (although some specific mines and mining camps are indexed).
    5. Augustin's letter to his mother Chloe, dated 1855, Nov. 15, is written on a pictorial lettersheet: "Hutchings' California Scenes – Methods of Mining." The pictorial lettersheet "San Francisco Upper California in November 1851" can be found in the Oversize Items (with a handwritten note by Augustin W. Hale).

    Separated Materials

    Three items from the Papers of Augustin W. Hale were transferred to and are now housed in the Huntington's Photograph Collections:
    1. photDAG 127 – Photograph of Augustin W. Hale as a young man.
    2. photDAG 128 – Photograph of Augustin W. Hale and daughter Agness.
    3. photDAG 129 – Miniature photo album containing photographs of extended family.
    Seven items from the Papers of Augustin W. Hale were transferred to and are now housed in the Huntington's Rare Books Department:
    1. Map – "City of San Francisco and its vicinity" (1853).
    2. Map – "Map indicating the proposed course of the steam navigation between San Francisco & Shanghae" [184-].
    3. Map – "Map of Southern Oregon and Northern California: compiled from the best authorities, and from personal surveys…" (1851).
    4. Volume – The Hesperian, volume 2 (1859).
    5. Volume – The principal stage, steam-boat, and canal routes in the United States, by S. Augustus Mitchell (1834).
    6. Volume – Twelve years in the mines of California: Embracing a general view of the gold region… by Lawson B. Patterson (1862). Copy is signed by author.

    Biographical Note on Augustin W. Hale

    Augustin Ward Hale (1814-1902), born January 13, 1814, grew up in New Jersey and New York. In his early life Augustin worked with his father Elisha Hale, a businessman and inventor. In 1841, Augustin married Jennette Van Kleeck; they had one daughter, Agness. In the summer of 1846, Augustin traveled to Trinidad to sell his father's patents. In 1848, before departing for California, Augustin had his wife committed to the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum and his young daughter, who showed signs of physical and mental disabilities, put in a foster home. In January 1849 Augustin sailed for California on the brig Pacific. He was a member of a joint venture called the New England Mining and Trading Company (Mark Hopkins was also a member of the company, which was disbanded shortly after its arrival in California). After stops in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Callao, Peru, the ship reached San Francisco in August; Augustin immediately traveled to Sacramento City and then to the mining camp Mormon Island. Along with mining, Augustin spent the 1850s investing in various business ventures, most of which failed. In 1851, Augustin created the Saucelito Water Company, one of his more successful businesses. After a profitable year he sold the company and invested in other businesses including the San Joaquin Railroad Company, Magnetic Mining Company (also called the Tuolumne Quartz Mining Company), San Joaquin Diving Bell Company, Sierra Nevada Flour Mills, and the Tuolumne Hydraulic Association. Most notable of these companies is the Stanislaus Central Bridge Company, which was established in 1852 to build an iron suspension bridge above the Stanislaus River. The company directors had not yet approved the completion of the bridge and were insisting that additional cables were needed, when, on November 19, 1853, the bridge collapsed as a wagon and team of horses were crossing it. Augustin and his partners had to pay the company's debts with their own money.
    Augustin had long been involved with the Episcopal Church in California and more specifically Trinity Church in San Francisco, and in 1854, he helped convince Dr. William Ingraham Kip, of Albany, New York, to come out west. Kip took over Trinity Church and became the first Episcopal bishop of California. By 1855, Augustin was back in the mines, including Michigan Bluff and Big Bar, but this time he also worked as an engineer constructing flumes, waterwheels and pumps. In 1857, Augustin returned to the east to visit his family. After his wife's death in March 1858, Augustin returned to California and tried his hand at bee keeping. Between 1860 and 1862, Augustin was in Silver City and Gold Hill, Nevada where he was participating in the opening of the Comstock Lode as an engineer for several mines. Not much is known about Hale's life after 1862. In 1874 he married a woman named Laura and in 1883 they were living in Pomona, California. They moved to Los Angeles in 1887. In 1894, he was hoping to patent an improved nozzle for fire engines. Augustin and Laura were living in Long Beach, California in 1900. Hale died there in 1902.

    Biographical Note on Elisha Hale

    Elisha Hale (1778-1851) was born in 1778. He and his wife Chloe had five children: Henry, Julius, Evelina, Augustin and Eliza. Elisha held patents for a collapsible umbrella, a rotary machine and a steam engine. In 1839 he traveled to Europe in an attempt to sell his patents. He returned home in 1841 after some success. He died in 1851.

    Hale Family Tree

    Elisha Hale (1779?-1851) m. Chloe Ward Hale (1779-1863)
    1. 1. Henry Hale (d.1835) m. Deidamia Belinda Hale (d.1890)
    2. 2. Julius Hale (1810?-1845) m. Caroline Hale Harding
    3. a. Julius Henry Hale (b. 1840)
    4. b. Nelly Hale
    5. 3. Evelina Hale Jones (1813?-1864) m. William P. Jones
    6. a. Henry? (b. before 1849)
    7. b. Aline (b. before 1849)
    8. 4. Augustin Ward Hale (1814-c.1901) m. Jennett Van Kleeck (d. 1858)
    9. a. Agness Hale (b. 1842)
    10. 5. Eliza Hale Paine (1816-1855) m. Henry D. Paine
    11. a. Freddy Paine
    12. b. Evelina Paine (b.1846)

    Scope and Content

    This collection contains the papers of Augustin Ward Hale (1814-1902), as well as family members in New York, New Jersey, California, and Nevada, with the bulk dating from 1830 to 1859.
    The papers consist of the following sections:
    Manuscripts
    The manuscripts consist of 1,112 items including business documents, legal documents, memoranda of letters written, stock certificates, receipts, and miscellaneous documents. Most categories are divided by person of origin and then business name and document/manuscript type. The manuscripts document, in detail, the various business ventures of Augustin and his business partners including Mark Hopkins and Warren S. Smith. The manuscripts include business and financial records of the following companies: Magnetic Mining Company, New England Mining and Trading Company, San Joaquin Diving Bell Company, San Joaquin Railroad Company, Saucelito Water Company, Sierra Nevada Flour Mills, Stanislaus Central Bridge Company, and the Tuolumne Hydraulic Association. This group also contains material related to Trinity Church in San Francisco and Hale's voyage to California including lists of items Hale purchased for the trip; a daily log of the longitude and latitude of the Pacific; and labels for items collected by Hale on his voyage and while mining in California (the items no longer accompany the labels and their location is unknown). Augustin's Memoranda of Letters Written contains summaries of the letters he wrote, including letters that are not in the collection. The manuscripts also document Elisha Hale's business ventures, his inventions and patents. This material includes agreements, bills of lading, deeds, indentures, licenses, patent documents, petitions, sketches, diagrams, and powers of attorney. The manuscripts also deal with several lawsuits involving the Hale family and land ownership in New York; one of the lawyers working with the family's lawsuit in Illinois was Abraham Lincoln.
    Diaries
    The collection contains 15 diaries, 11 of which are written by Augustin (almost all have complete typescripts). His diaries illustrate his life and work from his departure from New York in January 1849 to his mining and life in California in February 1851. Subjects in his diaries include his voyage to California, gold mining, gold discoveries, his encounters with Indians and his health problems as well as Colonel Jonathan Stevenson, San Francisco, Sacramento, the New England Mining Trading Company, the Chinese in California, and the mining camps Happy Valley, Shasta, Clear Creek and Mormon Island. The most significant of these diaries is the 217-page diary covering Augustin's departure from New York, his entire voyage on the Pacific and his arrival in San Francisco. This diary, which has a complete 164-page typescript, includes details about the voyage, conditions on the ship, conflicts between the passengers and Captain H. J. Tibbitts (who was replaced with Captain George T. Estabrook in Rio de Janeiro), as well as Augustin's experiences in Rio de Janeiro, and Callao and Lima, Peru. There are two diaries by an unidentified author who came overland to California in 1849 from Ohio. The author discusses the overland route to California, Benoni Hudspeth, John J. Myers, Hudspeth's Cutoff, William H. Warner, Peter Lassen and gold mining.
    Correspondence
    The correspondence includes 3,107 items and is arranged alphabetically by author then addressee. About two-thirds of the correspondence relates to Elisha Hale and his business, inventions and patents. Several pieces of correspondence are in French and German, some of which have English translations. The remainder of the correspondence relates to Augustin and his life in California and Nevada from 1849 to 1894 (there are some letters from Augustin's life before his move to California). Subjects covered in the correspondence are: gold mining in California and Nevada, including techniques and equipment; gold discoveries; conditions in the gold camps; fellow gold miners; the Episcopal Church and Trinity Church in San Francisco; Augustin's business ventures and financial problems; Isaac Lawrence Requa; the Mexican War and Zachary Taylor; the Chinese in California; the San Francisco fire in May 1851; Vigilance Committees; the Comstock Lode; the American Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. The correspondence also includes detailed descriptions of Big Bar, Chinese Camp, Clear Creek, Coloma, Grass Valley, Happy Valley, Los Angeles, Michigan Bluff, Mormon Island, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Yankee Jim's, California as well as Gold Hill and Silver City, Nevada. There are also several pieces of correspondence from women living in California that discuss their experiences in mining towns; these authors are Louise Colburn, Emily Mather, Cathe Sleeper, Mary Thompson, Elizabeth Van Winkle, and Margaret Voorhees. Most of Augustin's correspondence is accompanied by complete typescripts. Notable participants include: John Carpenter Angell; August Belmont; Orville Hickman Browning; Nehemiah Bushnell; George Mifflin Dallas; Charles Goodyear; Lewis C. Gunn; Joseph Holt; John Henry Hopkins; Mark Hopkins; Douglass Houghton; D. Minor K. Johnson; James King; Bishop William Kip; John Marshall Krum; J. Pierpont Morgan; Antoine Perpigna; Isaac L. Requa; Lorenzo Sawyer; Origen S. Seymour; Reuben Sherwood; William Neely Thompson; Enos Thompson Throop; Robert Boyd Van Kleeck; Fernando Wood.
    Ephemera
    The ephemera is made up of 1,006 items and includes business cards, broadsides, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, two albumen prints, receipts, an autograph album, recipes and miscellaneous printed items. Subjects covered in the ephemera are: Augustin's voyage to California, his businesses, gold mining, Colonel Jonathan Stevenson and Abraham Lincoln. There are also complete copies of three periodicals in the newspaper clippings including The Mohawk Courier (Little Falls, New York), St. George's Chronicle (Grenada), and the Daily Evening Transcript (Boston). There is also a front page from The Golden Era (San Francisco). Also included in the ephemera is the foot from the albatross Augustin killed and attempted to stuff during his voyage to California.
    Artifacts and Oversize Items
    There are 6 artifacts and 8 oversize items. These include a stamp of Augustin's name, the stamp for the Stanislaus Central Bridge Company stock certificates, postal cancellation stamps invented by Augustin, and Augustin's balance scale and weights for weighing gold as well as a pictorial lettersheet depicting San Francisco, maps, and sketches and diagrams of Elisha Hale's inventions.

    Arrangement

    The collection is organized in the following order:
    1. Manuscripts (Boxes 1-5)
    2. Diaries (Box 6)
    3. Correspondence (Boxes 7-25)
    4. Ephemera (Boxes 26-28)
    5. Artifacts (Box 29)
    6. Oversize Items (housed in separate folders)

    Indexing: Added Entries

    Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
    1. Addressee of Elisha Hale letters (1821). Box 13 (12).
    Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864.
    1. Addressee of Elisha Hale letters (1839). Box 13 (44).
    Hale, Augustin W.
    1. Author of item in Business Documents: Elisha Hale: Inventions – Rotary Machine (1846-1850). Box 3 (8).
    2. Author of signed, handwritten note in Edmund Burke, 1809-1882, letters (1846) to Elisha Hale. Box 7 (56).
    3. Author of handwritten note in J. Davis Clark letter (1849, Mar. 26) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 8 (16).
    4. Author of handwritten note in Thomas Estabrook letters (1850-1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (31).
    5. Addressee of letter by Elisha Hale in Elisha Hale letters (1848) to Reuben Gardner. Box 14 (1).
    6. Author of handwritten note in Jennett Hale letters (1841-1846) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 17 (1).
    7. Author of handwritten note in Phebe Lewis letter (1852, May 28) to Robert Lewis. Box 19 (15).
    8. Author of handwritten note in Margaret Van Antwerp letters (1849-1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 23 (25).
    9. Author of handwritten note on pictorial lettersheet "San Francisco Upper California in November 1851." Oversize Items.
    King, James, 1822-1856.
    1. Addressee of William Hammond letter (1852, July 11). Box 17 (36).
    Krum, John Marshall, 1810-1883.
    1. Co-author of document in Legal Documents: Goforth vs. Adams (1802-1849). Box 5 (1).
    2. Addressee of Philip B. (Philip Bond) Fouke, 1818-1876, letter (1849, Nov. 25). Box 10 (5).
    3. Addressee of Elisha Hale letters (1846-1848). Box 15 (6).
    4. Co-addressee of Elisha Hale letters (1844-1849) to Todd & Krum. Box 16 (35).
    5. Co-author of Todd & Krum letters (1844-1845) to Elisha Hale. Box 23 (12).
    6. Co-author of Todd & Krum letters (1846-1850) to Elisha Hale. Box 23 (13).
    7. Co-author of Todd & Krum letter (1844, Sep. 9) to Ami H. Hinkley. Box 23 (14).
    8. Co-author of Todd & Krum letter (1844, Sep. 9) to D. Minor K. Johnson. Box 23 (15).
    Throop, Enos Thompson, 1784-1874.
    1. Addressee of Elisha Hale letter in Elisha Hale letter (1840, Oct. 22) to Samuel Davis Heap, 1781-1853. Box 14 (28).
    2. Co-author of letter with Alexander Hammett (1840, Sep. 12) to Elisha Hale. Box 17 (34).
    Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862.
    1. Addressee of Elisha Hale letter [c.1832]. Box 16 (38).

    Indexing: Subjects

    Belmont, August, 1813-1890.
    1. Subject in Francis Chrismar letter (1840, Nov. 24) to Elisha Hale. Box 8 (13).
    Big Bar (Calif.).
    1. Subject in John S. Dunham letters (1850-1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (16).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1855) to Hale Family. Box 11 (21).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1855) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 11 (29).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, July-Dec.) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (2).
    5. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1857-1859) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (3).
    6. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letter (1856, Nov. 26) to William Hardy. Box 12 (9).
    7. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1851-1855) to Evelina Hale Jones. Box 12 (12).
    8. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, July-Dec.) to Evelina Hale Jones. Box 12 (14).
    9. Subject in Isaac Lawrence Requa, 1825-1905, letters (1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 21 (30).
    10. Subject in Margaret E. Voorhees letter (1855, July 22) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 23 (50).
    11. Subject in Photographs: Albumen Prints of Big Bar Mine [1856]. Box 26 (17).
    Chinese – California.
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan.19-Aug. 21). Box 6 (2).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1845-1850) to Hale Family. Box 11 (17).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1855) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 11 (29).
    4. Subject in Newspaper Clippings: California (1848-1856). Box 26 (13).
    Chinese Camp (Calif.).
    1. Subject in E. H. M. Gower letters (1852-1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 10 (26).
    2. Subject in William Hammond letters (1852-1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 17 (35).
    Clear Creek (Calif.).
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: General Receipts and Accounts (1847-1871). Box 1 (3).
    2. Subject in Memoranda of Letters Written: Augustin W. Hale (1850-1853). Box 5 (4).
    3. Subject in Miscellaneous Documents: Augustin W. Hale (1849-1855). Box 5 (9).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan. 5-Dec. 31). Box 6 (1).
    5. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan. 22-1850, Sep. 16). Box 6 (3).
    6. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Dec. 25-1850, Apr. 18). Box 6 (4).
    7. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, May 11-Oct. 16). Box 6 (5).
    8. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Aug. 1-28). Box 6 (6).
    9. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Oct. 1-Dec. 31). Box 6 (10).
    10. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1845-1850) to Hale Family. Box 11 (17).
    11. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1850) to Elisha Hale. Box 12 (7).
    Coloma (Calif.).
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1857-1859) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (3).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, Jan.-June) to Evelina Hale Jones. Box 12 (13).
    Comstock Lode (Nev.).
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861) to Hale Family. Box 11 (25).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1862) to Hale Family. Box 11 (26).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1860) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (4).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861-1862) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (5).
    Fires – California – San Francisco.
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1851) to Hale Family. Box 11 (18).
    Gold Hill (Nev.).
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861) to Hale Family. Box 11 (25).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1862) to Hale Family. Box 11 (26).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861-1862) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (5).
    Grass Valley (Calif.).
    1. Subject in John S. Dunham letters (1850-1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (16).
    2. Subject in J. Townsend Huddart letters (1851) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 18 (21).
    Happy Valley (Calif.).
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1851, Jan.1-Feb. 10). Box 6 (11).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1845-1850) to Hale Family. Box 11 (17).
    Hopkins, Mark, 1813-1878.
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: New England Mining and Trading Company (1849). Box 1 (11).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan.19-Aug. 21). Box 6 (2).
    3. Subject in William S. Dunham letters (1849-1856) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (17).
    4. Subject in W. Nott Leet letter (1857, Oct. 30) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (8).
    5. Subject in J. Lawrence Pool letters (1849-1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 21 (18).
    6. Subject in Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge Strong letters (1851-1858) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 22 (38).
    Hudspeth's Cutoff.
    1. Subject in Diaries of an Overland Journey to California [unidentified author] (1849-1865). Box 6 (14).
    Indians of North America – California.
    1. Subject in Memoranda of Letters Written: Augustin W. Hale (1850-1853). Box 5 (4).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan.5-Dec. 31). Box 6 (1).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan. 22-1850, Sep. 16). Box 6 (3).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Dec. 25-1850, Apr. 18). Box 6 (4).
    5. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, May 11-Oct. 16). Box 6 (5).
    6. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Aug. 1-28). Box 6 (6).
    7. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1840, Aug. 8-Oct. 30). Box 6 (7).
    8. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Aug. 28-Sep. 30). Box 6 (8).
    9. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Oct. 1-Dec. 31). Box 6 (10).
    10. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1845-1850) to Hale Family. Box 11 (17).
    11. Subject in Newspaper Clippings: California (1848-1856). Box 26 (13).
    12. Subject in Recipes: Cures/Medicine (1850). Box 28 (8).
    King, James, 1822-1856.
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, Jan.-June) to Evelina Hale Jones. Box 12 (13).
    2. Subject in Morris Smith Miller, 1814-1870, letters (1853-1854) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (26).
    3. Subject in J. Lawrence Pool letters (1849-1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 21 (18).
    4. Subject in Henry Gordon Walton letters (1852, Sep.-1853, Apr.) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 24 (8-11).
    Lassen, Peter, 1800-1859.
    1. Subject in Diaries of an Overland Journey to California [unidentified author] (1849-1865). Box 6 (14).
    Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
    1. Subject in Elisha Hale letters (1848-1850) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 14 (18).
    2. Subject in Julius Henry Hale letters (1851-1864) to Caroline Hale Harding. Box 17 (21).
    3. Subject in W. M. Warren letters (1849) to Elisha Hale. Box 24 (26).
    4. Subject in Miscellaneous Ephemera (1862-[c.1869]). Box 26 (7).
    Los Angeles (Calif.).
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1883-1894) to William P. Jones. Box 12 (17).
    Magnetic Mining Company/Tuolumne Quartz Mining Company.
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Magnetic Mining Company/Tuolumne Quartz Mining Company (1851, Oct. 18). Box 1 (9).
    2. Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Magnetic Mining Company/Tuolumne Quartz Mining Company Receipts (1851-1852). Box 1 (10).
    3. Subject in P. Pearce Hutchings letter (1851, Dec. 12) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 18 (27).
    4. Subject in A. Wright letter (1852, Feb. 2) to P. Pearce Hutchings. Box 25 (19).
    Mexican War, 1846-1848.
    1. Subject in Elisha Hale letters (1836-1846) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 14 (17).
    Michigan Bluff (Calif.).
    1. Subject in H. H. Doty letters (1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (14).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, Jan.-June) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (1).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, July-Dec.) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (2).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1851-1855) to Evelina Hale Jones. Box 12 (12).
    5. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, Jan.-June) to Evelina Hale Jones. Box 12 (13).
    6. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1857) to Evelina Hale Jones. Box 12 (15).
    7. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letter (1857, Feb. 13) to D. E. Knight. Box 12 (18).
    8. Subject in Isaac Lawrence Requa, 1825-1905, letters (1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 21 (30).
    9. Subject in Newspaper Clippings: California (1848-1856). Box 26 (13).
    Mormon Island (Calif.).
    1. Subject in Miscellaneous Documents: Augustin W. Hale (1849-1855). Box 5 (9).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan. 5-Dec.31). Box 6 (1).
    3. Subject in Diaries of an Overland Journey to California [unidentified author] (1849-1865). Box 6 (14).
    4. Subject in Thomas Estabrook letters (1850-1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (31).
    New England Mining and Trading Company.
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: New England Mining and Trading Company (1849). Box 1 (11).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan. 5-Dec.31). Box 6 (1).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan.19-Aug. 21). Box 6 (2).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1843-1852) to Evelina Hale Jones and William P. Jones. Box 12 (16).
    Overland journeys to the Pacific.
    1. Subject in Diaries of an Overland Journey to California [unidentified author] (1849-1865). Box 6 (14).
    Isaac Lawrence Requa, 1825-1905.
    1. Subject in H. H. Doty letters (1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (14).
    2. Subject in John S. Dunham letters (1850-1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (16).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letter (1857, Oct. 1) to James Harvey Bowen, 1822- 1881. Box 11 (11).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1858) to Hale Family. Box 11 (22).
    5. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1859) to Hale Family. Box 11 (23).
    6. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861) to Hale Family. Box 11 (25).
    7. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1862) to Hale Family. Box 11 (26).
    8. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1857-1859) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (3).
    9. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861-1862) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (5).
    10. Subject in W. Nott Leet letter (1857, Oct. 30) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (8).
    11. Subject in Joel Nelson letters (1832-1857) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (42).
    San Joaquin Railroad Company.
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: San Joaquin Railroad Company (1852-1853). Box 1 (14).
    2. Subject in E. W. Colt letters (1852-1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 8 (29).
    3. Subject in J. A. R. Homer letters (1850-1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 18 (12).
    Saucelito Water Company.
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Saucelito Water Company (1851-1855). Box 1 (15).
    2. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Saucelito Water Company Receipts (1851-1854). Box 1 (16-19).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1851, Jan. 1-Feb. 10). Box 6 (11).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1851) to Hale Family. Box 11 (18).
    5. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1854) to Hale Family. Box 11 (20).
    6. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1851-1854) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 11 (28).
    7. Subject in Robert Mulholland letters (1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (37).
    8. Subject in Warren S. Smith letters (1852-1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 22 (28).
    9. Subject in Henry Gaither Worthington, 1828-1909, letters (1853-1854) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 25 (16).
    10. Subject in Henry Gaither Worthington, 1828-1909, letter (1853, Mar. 25) to Augustin W. Hale and Warren S. Smith. Box 25 (17).
    11. Subject in Henry Gaither Worthington, 1828-1909, letter (1854, May 10) to Robert Mulholland. Box 25 (18).
    12. Subject in Cards: Business Cards [c.1850]. Box 26 (3).
    Shasta (Calif.).
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Aug. 1-28). Box 6 (6).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Aug. 8-Oct. 30). Box 6 (7).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Aug. 28-Sep. 30). Box 6 (8).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1850, Oct. 1-Dec. 31). Box 6 (10).
    Sierra Nevada Flour Mills.
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Sierra Nevada Flour Mills (1855). Box 2 (1).
    2. Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Sierra Nevada Flour Mills Receipts (1855). Box 2 (2).
    3. Subject in E. C. McComb letter (1855, Mar. 3) to Augustin W. Hale and George R. Babbitt. Box 19 (22).
    Silver City (Nev.).
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861) to Hale Family. Box 11 (25).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1860) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (4).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861-1862) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (5).
    Stanislaus Central Bridge Company.
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Hale & Smith (1851-1853). Box 1 (4).
    2. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Stanislaus Central Bridge Company (1853). Box 2 (3).
    3. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Stanislaus Central Bridge Company Receipts (1853, Jan.-May). Box 2 (4).
    4. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Stanislaus Central Bridge Company Receipts (1853, June-July). Box 2 (5).
    5. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Stanislaus Central Bridge Company Receipts (1853, Aug.-Nov.). Box 2 (6).
    6. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Stanislaus Central Bridge Company Stock Certificates (1853). Box 2 (7).
    7. Subject in Amos Beebe Eaton, 1806-1877, letter (1853, July 5) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 9 (20).
    8. Subject in Lewis C. (Lewis Carstairs) Gunn, 1813-1892, letters (1852-1854) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 10 (35).
    9. Subject in William Hammond letters (1852-1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 17 (35).
    10. Subject in J. A. R. Homer letters (1850-1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 18 (12).
    11. Subject in Thomas Reysee letter (1853, July 15) to George Augustus Charles Shurtleff, 1819-1902. Box 21 (32).
    12. Subject in George Augustus Charles Shurtleff, 1819-1902, letters (1853, Feb.- May) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 22 (20).
    13. Subject in George Augustus Charles Shurtleff, 1819-1902, letters (1853, June- Nov.) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 22 (21).
    14. Subject in Warren S. Smith letters (1852-1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 22 (28).
    15. Subject in Charles A. Van Kleeck letters (1851-1852) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 23 (30).
    16. Subject in Newspaper Clippings: California (1848-1856). Box 26 (13).
    17. Subject in Artifacts. Box 29.
    Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894.
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan.19-Aug. 21). Box 6 (2).
    2. Subject in Newspaper Clippings: California (1848-1856). Box 26 (13).
    Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850.
    1. Subject in Elisha Hale letters (1836-1846) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 14 (17).
    Tuolumne Hydraulic Association.
    1. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Hale & Smith (1851-1853). Box 1 (4).
    2. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Tuolumne Hydraulic Association (1852-1854). Box 2 (8).
    3. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Tuolumne Hydraulic Association Receipts (1852-1854). Box 2 (9).
    4. Subject in Business Documents: Augustin W. Hale: Tuolumne Hydraulic Association Stock Certificates (1853). Box 2 (10).
    5. Subject in Memoranda of Letters Written: Augustin W. Hale (1850-1853). Box 5 (4).
    6. Subject in John Carpenter Angell, 1818-1904, letters (1852-1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 7 (9).
    7. Subject in Patrick O. Byrne letters (1852) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 7 (63).
    8. Subject in William M. Calkins letters (1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 8 (1).
    9. Subject in E. H. M. Gower letters (1852-1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 10 (26).
    10. Subject in E. H. M. Gower letter (1852, July 18) to Warren S. Smith. Box 10 (27).
    11. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1852) to E. H. M. Gower. Box 11 (15).
    12. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1852) to Hale Family. Box 11 (19).
    13. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letter (1852, June 13) to Deidamia Belinda Hale. Box 12 (6).
    14. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1843-1852) to Evelina Hale Jones and William P. Jones. Box 12 (16).
    15. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1852-1853) to Henry D. Paine. Box 12 (21).
    16. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1852-1853) to Henry Gordon Walton. Box 12 (23).
    17. Subject in William Hammond letter (1852, July 11) to James King, 1822-1856. Box 17 (36).
    18. Subject in Connolly Leetch letters (1853-1854) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (9).
    19. Subject in Morris Smith Miller, 1814-1870, letters (1853-1854) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (26).
    20. Subject in Benjamin F. Moulton letters (1853) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (34).
    21. Subject in Robert Mulholland letters (1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 19 (37).
    22. Subject in George I. Powers letters (1853-1856) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 21 (20).
    23. Subject in Warren S. Smith letters (1852-1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 22 (28).
    24. Subject in Henry Gordon Walton letters (1852-1853) to Hale & Smith. Box 24 (7).
    25. Subject in Henry Gordon Walton letters (1852, Sep.-1855) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 24 (8-14).
    26. Subject in Henry Gordon Walton letter (1853, Aug. 30) to Connolly Leetch. Box 24 (15).
    27. Subject in Henry Gordon Walton letters (1853) to Warren S. Smith. Box 24 (16).
    28. Subject in Newspaper Clippings: California (1848-1856). Box 26 (13).
    United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865.
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1861) to Hale Family. Box 11 (25).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1862) to Hale Family. Box 11 (26).
    3. Subject in Julius Henry Hale letters (1851-1864) to Caroline Hale Harding. Box 17 (21).
    4. Subject in Miscellaneous Ephemera (1862-[c.1869]). Box 26 (7).
    5. Subject in Newspaper Clippings: Miscellaneous (1830-1896). Box 26 (15).
    Vigilance committees – California.
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, Jan.-June) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (1).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, Jan.-June) to Evelina Hale Jones. Box 12 (13).
    Voyages to the Pacific.
    1. Subject in Miscellaneous Documents: Augustin W. Hale (1849-1855). Box 5 (9).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan. 5-Dec.31). Box 6 (1).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan.19-Aug. 21). Box 6 (2).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale Diary (1849, Jan. 22-1850, Sep. 16). Box 6 (3).
    5. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1845-1850) to Hale Family. Box 11 (17).
    6. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1858) to Hale Family. Box 11 (22).
    7. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1843-1852) to Evelina Hale Jones and William P. Jones. Box 12 (16).
    8. Subject in Newspaper Clippings: California (1848-1856). Box 26 (13).
    Warner, William Horace.
    1. Subject in Diaries of an Overland Journey to California [unidentified author] (1849-1865). Box 6 (14).
    Yankee Jim's (Calif.).
    1. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1855) to Hale Family. Box 11 (21).
    2. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1855) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 11 (29).
    3. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, Jan.-June) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (1).
    4. Subject in Augustin W. Hale letters (1856, July-Dec.) to Chloe Ward Hale. Box 12 (2).
    5. Subject in Tubbs & Co. letter (1856, Dec. 4) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 23 (19).
    6. Subject in Margaret E. Voorhees letter (1855, July 22) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 23 (50).
    7. Subject in Charles B. Wyatt letter (1855, Nov. 30) to Augustin W. Hale. Box 25 (22).

    Bibliography

    Apostol, Jane (2000). "Augustin W. Hale: Hard-Luck Argonaut." Southern California Quarterly, 82(2): 145-168. Cataloger's Note: Ms. Aspostol reads Augustin's second wife's name as "Louise."
    Blodgett, Peter J. (1999). Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Businessmen -- California -- Archives
    Chinese -- California
    Fires -- California -- San Francisco
    Gold miners -- California -- Archives
    Gold mines and mining -- California -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
    Gold mines and mining -- Nevada -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
    Indians of North America -- California
    Inventors -- New York (State) -- Archives
    Mines and mineral resources -- California -- History -- 19th century
    Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- History -- 19th century
    Mining camps -- California
    Overland journeys to the Pacific.
    Silver mines and mining -- Nevada -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
    Vigilance committees -- California
    Voyages to the Pacific coast.
    Women -- California -- Correspondence
    Big Bar (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    California -- Gold discoveries -- Personal narratives
    California -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
    Callao (Callao, Peru) -- Description and travel
    Chinese Camp (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    Coloma (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    Comstock Lode (Nev.)
    Grass Valley (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    Hudspeth's Cutoff.
    Lima (Peru) -- Description and travel
    Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    New Jersey -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
    New York (State) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
    Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Description and travel
    Shasta (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    Silver City (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    Sacramento (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
    Yankee Jim's (Calif.) -- Description and travel
    Albumen prints -- California -- 19th century
    Business cards -- 19th century
    Business records -- United States -- 19th century
    Deeds -- United States -- 19th century
    Diaries -- California -- 19th century
    Financial records -- United States -- 19th century
    Legal instruments -- United States -- 19th century
    Letters (correspondence) -- California -- 19th century
    Letters (correspondence) -- Nevada -- 19th century
    Letters (correspondence) -- New York -- 19th century
    Maps -- California -- 19th century
    Pictorial lettersheets -- California -- 19th century
    Stock certificates -- California -- 19th century
    Trade cards -- 19th century
    Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
    Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881
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