Title:
C.W. Thompson letter: Columbia, California, to brother, 1860 June 17
Creator/Contributor:
Thompson, C. W., creator, correspondent.
Abstract:
Handwritten letter from a gold miner to his brother. Thompson explains that he would not be writing another letter home without
having received a reply "but we cleared up in our claim last week." He reports that "after having washed twenty days ... Our
dividens was eleven hundred and twenty five dollars to the shares after all expenses" and resulted in the "largest pan of
gold I ever saw ... mak[ing] a fellow feel sort of pleasant." He expresses a desire to "sel [sic] out and visit you" but decides
against this because he believes he would not be selling out at the highest possible price. His health "is passing good,"
but "working in the water all the time will make a fellow feel old while he is yet young in years." He concludes with a postscript
explaining that he "shall send six hundred dollars this steamer ... payable at the Bank of Mutual Redemption, Boston."
Date:
1860 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Gold mines and mining -- California -- Columbia
Gold miners -- California -- Columbia
Gold panning -- California -- Columbia
Gold miners
Gold mines and mining
Gold panning
California -- History -- 1850-1950
California
California -- Columbia
Thompson, C. W -- Correspondence
Thompson, C. W
Note:
Purchase; From Tavistock Books; 20140310.
Preferred citation: C.W. Thompson letter : Columbia, California, to brother, 1860 June 17, BANC MSS 2014/13, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
History.
Personal correspondence.
Physical Description:
print
1 (2
Language:
English
Origin:
California