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Reading family papers, 1841-1868.
BANC MSS 72/66 cLOCAL
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Title:
Reading family papers, 1841-1868Creator/Contributor:
Reading, Fanny Washington., Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Reading, Alice M., 1859-1939, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Lee, Richard Bland, d. 1870, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Wozencraft, Oliver M., (Oliver Meredith), 1814-1887Creator/Contributor:
Templeman, Eleanor Lee Reading, 1906-, Correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874Abstract:
Letters written to or about Pierson Barton Reading, mainly by members of the family, including letters from Richard Bland
Lee and Fannie (Washington) Reading (one describing her voyage to San Francisco in 1856 from New York via Panama); letter,
1844, by Reading, relating his overland journey to California and his early impressions; 1851 treaty between U.S. Indian agent
O.M. Wozencraft and California Indians at Reading ranch; President Fillmore's certificate of Reading's appointment, 1852,
as Indian agent in California, and Reading's accounts while agent; deed for property in Shasta County, 1862.
Also included: correspondence and articles of his daughter, Alice M. Reading; papers relating to the estate of Robert Lee
Reading, 1919-1920; correspondence with related notes and clippings, 1943-1970, of Eleanor Lee Templeman, concerning Reading
and the Reading adobe.
Date:
1841 (issued)Subject:
Overland journeys to the PacificVoyages to the Pacific coast
Indians of North America -- California
Adobe houses
California -- Lands
Shasta County (Calif.) -- Lands
Note:
Originals, typed transcripts and photocopy.
Portion of collection photocopy.
Photocopies : location of originals unknown.
Photocopies : FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited.
Physical Description:
1 portfolio.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 72/66 cLOCAL
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Photocopies : FOR REFERENCE USE ONLY. Reproduction prohibited.