Mary Ellen Pleasant financial correspondence and notes, 1892-1897.

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Pleasant, Mary Ellen, 1814-1904. Mary Ellen Pleasant financial correspondence and notes, 1892-1897.

Mary Ellen Pleasant financial correspondence and notes, 1892-1897.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137287921

Collection consists of materials documenting the financial affairs of Mary Ellen ("Mammy") Pleasant, an African American woman and entrepreneur known as the Mother of Civil Rights. Items include a small autograph note; a signed promissory note; three handwritten letters from A.P. Overton, president of the Savings Bank of Santa Rosa (California), to Pleasant; and three handwritten copy letters from Pleasant to Overton. All items concern a promissory note for $3,000 and a mortgage to a Mrs. Guimaraes.

0.1 linear feet (1 oversize folder)

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections