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Biography of Grace Roberts Moore : and related papers, 1863-[ca.1929]
BANC MSS 90/133 cLOCAL
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Title:

Biography of Grace Roberts Moore: and related papers, 1863-[ca.1929]

Creator/Contributor:

Moore, Grace Roberts., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

actually a memoir written in the late 1920s. Includes accounts of the following: her mother's passage to California across the Isthmus of Panama in 1851 and early days in San Francisco; the family's European tour of 1864; the author's early married life in the Bay Area and subsequent move to Tacoma, Washington; the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906; residence in Berkeley Calif. in her later years.
Written from Rome, 13 March 1864. One is from Grace (age 11), and the other from her mother, Mary Nowlin Roberts, to her grandmother, Eliza Armstrong Nowlin. Contain accounts of their trip from Paris to Rome via Lyons, Geneva, Turin, Genoa and Naples.

Date:

1863 (issued)

Subject:

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Roberts, Mary Nowlin
Roberts, Martin Richard -- 1820-
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Personal narratives
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Personal narratives
Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- Personal narratives
Europe -- Description and travel
Tacoma (Wash.) -- Social life and customs
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century

Note:

Includes typed transcript of biography and letters.
Memoir: FRAGILE ORIGINAL: Use transcript in place of original.
Also available in digital format: accessible through Online Archive of California.
Daughter of forty-niner, Martin Richard Roberts (of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.), and sister of the actor, Theodore Roberts. Grace Moore died in San Francisco on June 20, 1944.

Type:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 v., 2 ALS.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 90/133 cLOCAL

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Memoir: FRAGILE ORIGINAL: Use transcript in place of original.