Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Smith Hallidie and Portsmouth Plaza : typescript, 1956 Jan. 16.

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Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Smith Hallidie and Portsmouth Plaza : typescript, 1956 Jan. 16.

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Typewritten draft of an address delivered to the Contra Costa Historical Society on Mar. 8, 1956, discussing years that Stevenson and Hallidie spent in Calif., and why memorial markers of them have been erected in Portsmouth Plaza, San Francisco.

1 item (15 leaves), with envelope.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6677670

California historical society

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