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Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco, Calif.). Mechanics Institute, San Francisco correspondence, 1871-1879.

Title: Mechanics Institute, San Francisco correspondence, 1871-1879.

Primarily letters concerning rental or sale of property, meetings, memberships, gifts to the library, proposals for technical courses, and other business matters. Letters from the following included: Joseph S. Alemany, William Ashburner, Matilda Bancroft, William Curlett, John T. Doyle, A.S. Hallidie, Thomas Houseworth, James Lick Trust, Jeremiah Lynch, Eadweard Muybridge, W.T. Reid, Irving M. Scott, Frank Soulé, and Horace Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26657418 View

Chatard, Francis Silas, 1834-1918. Letters received, 1855-1912 (bulk 1855-1875) [microform].

Title: Letters received, 1855-1912 (bulk 1855-1875) [microform].

Letters from family, friends, and American bishops, most of them dating from the time when Chatard lived in Rome; concerning the North American College and its students and European travels of American friends; with requests from American bishops for assistance in dealing with Vatican officials, inquiries about political conditions in Rome, and requests for accommodations at the College for the First Vatican Council. Correspondents include bishops Joseph S. Alemany, James Roosevelt Bayley, Francis Norbert Blanchet, Michael A. Corrigan, William Henry Elder, Ignatius Horstmann, John McCloskey, William McCloskey, John Baptist Purcell, Patrick John Ryan, Robert Seton, and others; and the founder of the Paulists, Isaac Thomas Hecker.

ArchivalResource: 8 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24950089 View

Forbes, James Alexander, 1804?-1881. James Alexander Forbes letterbook : and related material, 1850-1879.

Title: James Alexander Forbes letterbook : and related material, 1850-1879.

Correspondence concerning his interest and activity as a merchant and member of the community in Santa Clara County with such individuals as family, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Bishop Alemany, Santiago Arguello, Ygnacio Peralta, and Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Also includes biographical information on the Forbes and Galindo families.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 1 v.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 2361X) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86132564 View

Monterey Public Library. California History Room. Historic buildings-Monterey-St. Catherine's Convent clippings 1957-1970.

Title: Historic buildings-Monterey-St. Catherine's Convent clippings 1957-1970.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670343758 View

Alemany, Joseph Sadoc, 1814-1888. Joseph Sadoc Alemany letter to John T. Doyle : San Francisco : ALS, 1875 Apr. 26.

Title: Joseph Sadoc Alemany letter to John T. Doyle : San Francisco : ALS, 1875 Apr. 26.

Thanking him for the volume on the Pious Fund.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83832331 View

Pioda Family. Pioda family papers : ms., 1847-1900.

Title: Pioda family papers : ms., 1847-1900.

Correspondence, legal and land materials, and genealogical information concerning Edward L. Williams, Sylvester Woodbridge, Edmund Jones, Joseph Boston, Archbishop Alemany, A. St. Clair Denver, Luis Mesa, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mariano G. Day, Governor Michetorena, Manuel Castañares, Mary Emma Woodbridge (later Mrs. Paul F. Pioda) and David Gould.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 532:14) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214986504 View

United States. Land Commissioners for California. Decree of confirmation in case 609 : Joseph S. Alemany vs. The United States : ms., 1855 Dec. 24.

Title: Decree of confirmation in case 609 : Joseph S. Alemany vs. The United States : ms., 1855 Dec. 24.

Contemporary certified copy of a decree by the Land Commissioners confirming the ownership by the Catholic Church of California mission churches and property.

ArchivalResource: 9 leaves ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214927158 View

Martínez, Esteban José, 1742-1798. Mexican legal documents relating to the missions in Alta and Baja California, 1786-1851 (bulk 1786-1789).

Title: Mexican legal documents relating to the missions in Alta and Baja California, 1786-1851 (bulk 1786-1789).

Collection of 13 unrelated manuscript legal documents concerning activities and transactions of the legal authorities of New Spain and the Catholic missions located throughout Baja and Alta California. They include viceregal notes to religious authorities regarding the missionaries, receipts for payments, disbursements from the Pious Fund, a legal dispute, shipments of goods, and a marriage dispensation, etc. Most are signed by various parties of the agreement or note.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.2 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/756870356 View

Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Records, 1822-1930.

Title: Records, 1822-1930.

Letters, 1828-1930, from the United States to the central council at Paris (27 reels of microfilm) arranged by diocese; and letters to and minutes of the central council at Lyons, 1822-1900, arranged chronologically (15 reels of microfilm). Correspondents include many members of the American hierarchy, among them Joseph Sadoc Alemany, August M. Blanchet, Francis Norbert Blanchet, Timothy Corbett, Joseph Fréri, Henry Granjon, John Baptist Lamy, Joseph P. Macheboeuf, Augustus M. Martin, John C. Neraz, Michael O'Connor, John M. Odin, John Baptist Purcell. Louis A. Rappe, John Baptist Salpointe, Rupert Seidenbusch, John Timon, John M.P. Augustine Verot, Richard V. Whelan, and Joshue M.M. Young, and priests, among them Marc Antony Frenaye, Samuel Mazzuchelli, OP, Basil Anthony Moreau, CSC, B.S. Piot, and Edward Sorin, CSC. Also typewritten translations of correspondence (1868-1882) of James Gibbons, Mark S. Gross, Henry P. Northrop, and John J. Keane to directors of the Society for the Propagation of Faith (Paris) describing the difficulties of the missionary task in North Carolina, asking for assistance, and discussing Catholic missions to American Blacks.

ArchivalResource: 42 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23743432 View

Monterey Public Library. California History Room. Biography clippings : "A" [surname] folder 1855-2005.

Title: Biography clippings : "A" [surname] folder 1855-2005.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123082558 View