Title:

Pamela Platt Gregory papers, 1864-1913 (bulk 1864-1883)

Creator/Contributor:

Gregory, Pamela Platt, b. 1805, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Gregory, Munson, correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Gregory, Pamela Platt, correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Platt, Fanny Arabella Hayes, correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Gregory, W.C.

Personal letters from Gregory and Platt family members providing numerous details on family members and friends. Arranged chronologically. Handwritten letters (24), essays (2), with typewritten transcripts [some original letters missing] includes a photocopy photograph of Pamela Platt Gregory with handwritten caption note identifying her [incorrectly?] as the wife of Munson Gregory. Other details include remarks on the situation in Burlington, Vt. following the Confederate raid on St. Albans, Vt. in 1864, feeling the shock of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake in San Jose, Calif, and a trip to the Bahamas. There are two school essays titled: "The Arctic Region" ("Waddie's first composition copied by Fannie ") and "Raising Grain in California" by W. [Waddie?] C. Gregory. Also includes a single spiral bound volume titled "Letters, Fanny Arabella Hayes Platt" containing photocopies of a genealogical record of the Platt family and typewritten transcripts of letters (dated 1869-1870) [no original letters] that provide an account of an overland journey from Columbus [Ohio] to California. The Platt letters are addressed from Chicago, Ill.,Omaha, Neb., Utah, Nevada, and various places in California including San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Pacheco Valley, Stockton, Benicia, and Santa Barbara. Also includes a price list (dated Season 1913) for the Fallen Leaf Lodge [i.e. Stanford Sierra Camp) in Lake Tahoe, Calif.

Date:

1864 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-us-vt

Gregory, Eddie -- Correspondence

Gregory, Pamela Platt -- b. 1805 -- Archives

Gregory family

Platt family

Gregory, Pamela Platt -- Correspondence

Platt, Fanny Arabella Hayes -- Correspondence

Platt, Wm. A. (William Augustus) -- Correspondence

Hickock, Laura Ann (Platt) -- Correspondence

Gregory, Platt -- Correspondence

Gregory, W.C -- Correspondence

Stanford Sierra Camp.

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- 19th century

Women pioneers -- California -- Contra Costa County

Earthquakes -- California -- San Jose -- 20th century -- Personal narratives

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Personal narratives

Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Personal narratives

Saint Albans (Vt.) -- History -- Raid, 1864

Nassau (Bahamas)

Pamela Platt Gregory papers, BANC MSS 2009/141, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

In English.

Related collection: Gregory family papers, (BANC MSS 90/131 c).

Related collection: Warren Gregory papers, (BANC MSS 91/3 c).

print

1 box (0.2 linear feet)

English

Origin:

California