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BANC MSS 72/203 c
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Collection Title: Pringle Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1803-1961
Date (bulk): (bulk 1842-1961)
Collection Number: BANC MSS 72/203 c
Creator:
Pringle Family
Extent:
Number of containers: 34 boxes, 1 carton, 2 volumes, 1 oversize folder
Linear feet: ca. 15.5
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the appropriate curator or to the Head of Public Services for forwarding. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Pringle Family Papers, BANC MSS 72/203 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials Cataloged Separately
- Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
The Pringle Family Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by E. C. Pringle, Jr. on April 20, 1972. Photocopies of Edward
J. Pringle (1826-1899) correspondence in the Alston-Pringle Manuscript Collection were donated by the South Carolina Historical
Society, through the courtesy of Mr. Peter Manigault in September 1988.
The Pringle Family Papers, 1803-1961, consist primarily of correspondence of the extended families of Edward J. Pringle (1826-1899)
and his wife, Cornelia C. Johnson Pringle, of San Francisco, California. Edward was the son of William Bull Pringle (1800-1881)
and Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1826-1899) of Charleston, South Carolina. Some personal papers of the Pringle and Johnson families
are also included. The collection has been divided, chiefly by individual family members, into fifteen series.
The Papers of Edward J. Pringle, an attorney, include his letters from Harvard, 1844-1845, and journals kept during his trip
to Europe during 1847-1848. He settled in San Francisco in 1853 and specialized in litigating Spanish land grant claims.
Much of the family correspondence in the collection is between his wife, Cornelia Johnson Pringle and their daughter, Cornelia
Covington Pringle and her six siblings: Edward J., William Bull, Sidney J., E. Covington, Hess, Mary Motte, and Charles Alston.
Notable among her other correspondents is Louis Janin, and the Johnson family papers include the letters her father, Sidney
Law Johnson, wrote from San Francisco in the 1860s.
The bulk of the correspondence is either to or from Cornelia Covington Pringle, and aside from numerous family members, her
notable and long-term correspondents include Ynes Mexia and the Cooper Ornithological Club.
The papers of Charles Alston Pringle contain correspondence and manuscripts of his writings, many relating to Mexico, along
with various business papers concerning his mining interests. Papers of the Pringle family also include legal documents relating
to Central Pacific Railroad litigation, 1882-1890, as well as genealogical and various property records, wills, scrapbooks,
and clippings.
Finally, there is a small amount of miscellaneous material, chiefly ephemera and clippings, which bear no clear relationship
to the Pringle family.