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Winchester, Herman. Herman Winchester letters : to E. Winchester : ALS, 1849-1872.

Title: Herman Winchester letters : to E. Winchester : ALS, 1849-1872.

Contains letters from Herman Winchester to brother describing travel to Calif. by ship and overland through Mexico, San Francisco, the gold mining at "Mormon Bar" [i.e. Mormon Island], price of goods in Calif., family, and politics in Calif. during the Civil War. Also includes correspondence of E. Winchester to wife Eliza, to brother Jonas and from Horace Everly.

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 1 oversize folder (.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52962088 View

Winchester, Jonas, 1810-1887. Jonas Winchester letters : typed transcripts, [undated].

Title: Jonas Winchester letters : typed transcripts, [undated].

Typed copies of family and business correspondence dated 1829-1887. Correspondents include Peter Burnett, Ferdinand C. Ewer, Horace Greeley, charles Sumner, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Includes a few original letters and receipts, along with a stock certificate.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122550296 View

Hewitt, Randall H. (Randall Henry), b. 1840. Manuscripts of Randall H. Hewitt, 1849-1916.

Title: Manuscripts of Randall H. Hewitt, 1849-1916.

The collection consists chiefly of articles, speeches, and manuscripts written by Randall H. Hewitt. These manuscripts cover a variety of subjects including: the Salton Sea and water supply in California; the Colorado desert; the postal service; railway mail service; the Western Union Telegraph Company; railroads, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway and the Southern Pacific Company; William Mulholland, Sir William Willcocks, Colonel George W. Goethals and the Los Angeles Aqueduct; the Panama Canal; the city of Los Angeles; the Rio Grande and floods in El Paso, and Juarez and Nogales, Mexico. Most of the speeches were given before the Los Angeles Pioneer Society. There is also one scrapbook with copies of articles by Hewitt and others and a typed copy of a letter by Jonas Winchester to Horace Greeley regarding newspapers in California, gold mining and San Francisco. There are also two newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/407414209 View