British Consulate General correspondence : photostat copies, [1951].

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British Consulate General correspondence : photostat copies, [1951].

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Photostat copies of official correspondence from the Consulate General in San Francisco to the British Foreign Office, together with a typed copy of an article (21 leaves) by C.S. Forester titled: One hundred years of consular correspondence. Correspondence includes letters relating to the 1851 and 1856 San Francisco Committees of Vigilance, British Hospital in San Francisco, San Francisco Sailors Boarding House League, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

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Great Britain. Consulate General (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Forester, C.S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966.

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C.S. Forester (1899-1966) was an author and historian best known for his tales of seafaring life. His most famous works are the 11-volume Horatio Hornblower series, set during the era of the Napoleonic Wars, and the novel The African Queen, adapted into a film by John Huston in 1951. Born in Cairo to British parents and educated in England, Forester settled in California at the end of World War II, where he lived until his death. From the description of C.S. Forester papers, 1940-196...