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Working files for the Book Club of California's 1948 Keepsake publication, Letters of the Gold Discovery : compiled under the editorship of George P. Hammond, 1948.
fmF865.B58LOCALBANC MSS 92/13 cLOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Working files for the Book Club of California's 1948 Keepsake publication, Letters of the Gold Discovery: compiled under the editorship of George P. Hammond, 1948
Keepsake series (Book Club of California)

Creator/Contributor:

Hammond, George P. (George Peter), 1896-1993, creator

Abstract:

Hammond's working files, including correspondence with contributors and editors, typescripts of background information, specimen copies of a few of the final published versions of individual items, and photo reproductions of original documents.

Date:

1948 (issued)

Contents:

1. Captain John A. Sutter [to G. McKinstry].- 2. The Sutter-Marshall lease.- 3. Sutter to Leidesdorff.- 4. Edward C. Kemble to John S. Hittell.- 5. 1848: a letter from Thomas O. Larkin to Governor R.B. Mason.- 6. W.D.M. Howard to B.T. Reed, 1848.- 7. Consul Thomas O. Larkin to Secretary of State James Buchanan.- 8. Letter of Captain J.L. Folsom to the Secretary of the National Institute at Washington, D.C.- 9. Letter of Ebenezer Larkin Childs to Thomas O. Larkin.- 10. Rodman M. Price to Thomas O. Larkin.- 11. A letter from Stephen Reynolds to Thomas O. Larkin, November, 1848.- 12. Robert Semple to Thomas O. Larkin.

Subject:

Book Club of California.

Physical Description:

1 box (.4 linear ft.)

Language:

English

Identifier:

fmF865.B58LOCAL
BANC MSS 92/13 cLOCAL

Origin:

California