Key to Arrangement
1845-1847 Accounts - receipts from Henry Savage and accounts - Tamala Estate.
1849-1850 Papers relating to shipments of lumber on brig, Lady Shaw Stewart, George Roper, master; bark, Ella Francis, Frederick Isley, master; bark, Secret, Robert Hilton, master.
Bills of lading and exchange, correspondence concerning insurance and agreements.
1849, July 12 Copy of a decree by the Costa Rica Congress granting a license to Juan R. Mora and O. Simmons to construct a canal.
1849, Oct. 3 Receipt for gold shipment on steamer, Crescent City.
ca. 1850 Unidentified list of supplies and fragment concerning a shipment of pearls.
1850, Apr. 19 Luis y Romagon (firm), Acajutla [El Salvador] Receipted bills for wines and liquors.
1850-1851 Papers relating to accounts of Simmons, Hutchinson & Company, San Francisco, concerning sales of lumber.
1850-1851 Hilton, Robert. (3 letters)
1851, May 30 Mora, Juan Rafael. (later President of Costa Rica) Letter and documents concerning settlement of mercantile venture with Simmons.
1852-1853 Partnership agreements between Rollin Wheeler, James M. Ryder and Orrin Simmons, and related papers pertaining to agricultural hardware business in San Francisco and Sacramento.
1853, Mar. 23 Blake, George M. Lease agreement with Wilder Story for cultivation of land in "Contra Costa Township".
1854, Jan. 23 Simmons' mortgage of San Francisco property to Joseph Gray and Gray's receipt for discharge, Jan. 11, 1856.
1854, Mar. 21 & 25 Kingsbury, Joseph (J. D. Hunt & Company) Agreements for sales of hardware business in San Francisco to Simmons.
1854, Sep. 30 Simmons and wife - Mortgage of San Francisco property to W. T. Sherman and Sherman's note of discharge, May 25, 1855, annexed.
1854-1855 Coburn, S. A. Deeds of sale for house and improvements (Berkeley) and for horse, buggy, etc.
1855, Apr. 11 Simmons. Bill of sale to A. S. Norton and N. A. Potter of San Francisco hardware business. (agreement and account) tied together.
1855-1857 Papers pertaining to agreement with Lewis Millington. Deeds and leases for property in Berkeley.
1856, Oct. 1 Simmons. Lease and contract with Jason B. Pierce and Samuel C. Wright for cultivation of lands. (Berkeley)
1857, Oct. 15 Austin, Peter E. and E. H. Austin. Agreement to cut wood on ranch leased from Thomas Rawlings to J. H. Armstrong and by Armstrong to Simmons.
1857-1858 Agreements with William Walter. Lease and deed of sale (land in Berkeley).
1860, Aug. 14 Simmons and wife. Conveyance of water rights in [Strawberry?] Creek to the College of California.
1860, Oct. 22 Waller & Moore (law firm). Letter to James Churchman introducing Simmons.
1860-1862 Papers concerning leasing of land and grazing of stock on property in Plot 80 (Berkeley). Leases and agreements with Wilson Joy & Company, John Short, E. F. Joy and William S. Kennedy.
1861, Sep. 28 Simmons, O. Letter to Henry Durant pertaining to property near Walker River.
1866, May 10 College of California. Deed of sale to William N. Slocum of property in Plot 80 (Berkeley). Signed by Joseph W. Stow and Samuel H. Willey.
1870, Sep. 27 Campbell, F. M. Letter to Henry Durant. A recommendation for E. J. Simmons to enter University of California.
1874-1875 Papers pertaining to promissory notes of Henry Durant to Simmons.
1878, June 3 University of California. Class of 1875. Reunion program.
1883-1884 University of California. College of Dentistry. Certificates in anatomy (dissection) to W. H. Simmons.
Maps: (property in Berkeley)
1878 Boardman Survey (copied 1881) (tracing)
1881 Auction ... Taggart and Dingee (printed)
1895 M. G. King Survey (tracing)
1907 Tibbets Survey (blue print)
1909 Blue print
1909 Warren Cheney sales sheet