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Robert B. Semple letter : Benicia City, Calif., to Thomas O. Larkin, Monterey, Calif., 1848 Dec. 13.
BANC MSS 2011/37
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Title:

Robert B. Semple letter: Benicia City, Calif., to Thomas O. Larkin, Monterey, Calif., 1848 Dec. 13

Creator/Contributor:

Semple, Robert B. (Robert Baylor), 1806-1854, creator, correspondent.

Creator/Contributor:

Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802-1858, correspondent.

Date:

1848 (issued)

Subject:

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Semple, Robert B. (Robert Baylor) -- 1806-1854 -- Correspondence
Larkin, Thomas Oliver -- 1802-1858 -- Correspondence
Real property -- California -- San Francisco
Real property -- California -- Benicia
Real property -- California -- Sacramento
California -- History -- 1846-1850
Benicia (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century

Note:

Photocopy of original manuscript letter discussing real estate business concerns, transactions, and propositions in "Yerba Buena" [i.e. San Francisco], "Benicia City" [i.e. Benicia], and Sacramento, California including the sale of lots and a two-story hospital to care for miners. The letter is signed "Your slave, R. Semple."
Robert B. Semple letter : Benicia City, Calif., to Thomas O. Larkin, Monterey, Calif., 1848 Dec. 13, BANC MSS 2011/37, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift ; of Linda W. Coski and Phila W. Rogers; 19900523.
In English.
Thomas Oliver Larkin was an early American emigrant to Alta California and a signer of the original California Constitution. He was the United States' first and only consul to the California Republic (Mexico). In partnership with Robert Semple, he established the city at the Carquinez Straits that became Benicia.
Doctor Robert Baylor Semple was a 19th-century Californian newspaperman and politician. In 1847, with Thomas O. Larkin, he received a grant of land from Mariano Vallejo along the Carquinez Strait near the mouth of the Sacramento River provided that a new town be erected there named for Vallejo's wife, Francisca Benicia. In 1849, Semple was elected to and presided over California's state constitutional convention.
Gift ; of Linda W. Coski and Phila W. Rogers; 19900523.
Gift ; of Linda W. Coski and Phila W. Rogers; 19900523.

Physical Description:

print
3 p.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 2011/37

Origin:

California