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Richard Goss Stanwood journals and letterbooks : ms.S, 1852-1884.
BANC MSS C-B 709 v.1; BANC MSS C-B 709 v.2; BANC MSS C-B 709 v.3; BANC MSS C-B 709 v.4; ...
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Collection Overview

Title:

Richard Goss Stanwood journals and letterbooks : ms.S, 1852-1884

Creator/Contributor:

Stanwood, Richard Goss., creator

Date:

1852 (issued)

Contents:

v. 1-3, journals, Sept. 1852-Jan. 1864, describing arrival in San Francisco after voyage from Boston, move to Marysville and employment in lumber business, trip to East and return via Panama, June-Nov. 1858; v.4-5, letterpress copy books of personal letters, 1878-1880 and 1882-1884, mainly to his father.

Subject:

Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
Lumber trade -- California
Voyages to the Pacific coast
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel
Marysville (Calif.)
Panama, Isthmus of (Panama)

Type:

Diaries.
Letterpress copybooks.

Physical Description:

5 v. ; 20-28 cm.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS C-B 709 v.1
BANC MSS C-B 709 v.2
BANC MSS C-B 709 v.3
BANC MSS C-B 709 v.4
BANC MSS C-B 709 v.5

Origin:

California