Comey California Goldfield Letters
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Comey California Goldfield Letters, ca. 1853, 1854
Collection number: Wyles SC 61
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 16 May 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Comey California Goldfield Letters,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1853, 1854
Collection Number: Wyles SC 61
Creator:
Comey, A.
Extent:
.02 linear feet
(1 folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
None.
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Comey California Goldfield Letters. Wyles SC 61. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Undetermined.
Scope and Content of Collection
Two letters (ALS) from A. Comey to his children (Albert B. and Ann E.) in Woodville, Mass., from the California goldfields,
1853, 1854. Talks about immigrants arriving, including women and children, sometimes with large herds of cattle and sheep.
Says that "the country is full and overrun with miners from all parts of the world the two largest classes are American and
Chinamen the next two I think Mexicans & French and after some from all nations and to make up the assortment thousands of
Indians natives of the country who are scattered all over the country and dig a good deal of the gold but mind you it is not
the men but the squaws the men think it beneath their dignity"
Box
Two letters (ALS), 1853 - 1854