This collection primarily consists of manuscripts and typescripts of various essays and stories by the historian and author Douglas Sloane Watson (1875-1948). There are also newspaper clippings, correspondence, financial documents, and a small amount of photographs.

Watson was a prolific contributor to the California Historical Society Quarterly, and wrote "Did the Chinese discover America? A critical examination of the Buddhist priest Hui Shen's account of Fu Sang, and the apochryphal voyage of the Chinese navigator Hee-Li" for that journal in 1935. He also wrote stories about early California history that were privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club in San Francisco, and the Book Club of California."

2.3 Linear Feet (5 manuscript boxes, 1 flat box)

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