Halleck, Peachy & Billings Correspondence and Papers, ca. 1852-1867
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Halleck, Peachy & Billings Correspondence and Papers
- Dates:
- ca. 1852-1867
- Creators:
- Halleck, Peachy & Billings (Firm)
- Abstract:
- Correspondence and papers relating to land and land litigation (including original documents and diseños, and transcripts) and to various legal cases, some concerning Chinese immigration, ships, and the funding bill in San Francisco; accounts; and tax records. Also included: correspondence and papers relating to the military career of Henry Wager Halleck, 1847-1856, and manuscript drafts and notes for Halleck's History of California.
- Extent:
- 2 oversize boxes.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Halleck, Peachy & Billings Correspondence and Papers (Collection 102). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of 10 reels of 35mm positive microfilm of papers located in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley ( Collection C-B 421 ).
- Biographical / historical:
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Halleck, Peachy & Billings was one of the leading San Francisco law firms in the settlement of titles to Mexican land grants; Frederick Billings arrived in San Francisco in 1849; he immediately established a law practice, and soon formed a partnership with Archibald C. Peachy; Peachy later became a member of the CA State Assembly in 1852, and of the State Senate in 1860 and 1862; Henry Wager Halleck graduated in engineering from West Point, participated in the Mexican War, and later prepared a report on CA land titles; became an active member of the CA Constitutional Convention; he resigned from the army and joined the law firm in 1854, compiling his books: The mining laws of Spain and Mexico, and International law; returned to the US Army in 1860, later becoming a general during the Civil War; the firm was dissolved in 1861.
- Arrangement:
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The original papers and correspondence are arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence (Box 1).
- Papers relating to land and land litigation (Boxes 2-5).
- Legal papers, not primarily land (Boxes 6-7).
- Henry Wager Halleck correspondence and papers relating to his military career (Box 8).
- Drafts and notes of Halleck's History of California (Box 9).
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2006
- Date Encoded:
- Text rekeyed by Caroline Cubé from in-house paper finding aid, May 2006 . Machine-readable finding aid derived from rekeyed finding aid, encoding added via Notetab Pro. Date of source: November 1992 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Collection is restricted from copying.
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Halleck, Peachy & Billings Correspondence and Papers (Collection 102). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988