Samuel Hopkins Willey papers, [ca. 1848-1874].

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Samuel Hopkins Willey papers, [ca. 1848-1874].

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correspondence with secretaries and fellow ministers of the American Home Missionary Society, 1848-74. Comments on arrival in California via Panama in 1849; early missionary work in Monterey, San Francisco, Stockton, San Jose and mining camps; other ministers; pastoral duties at Howard St. Presbyterian Church; establishment of the College of California; 1851 vigilance committee; etc. Letters from William Adams, Milton Badger, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Durant and J.E. Dwinelle. Miscellaneous clippings, sermon notes (1862), ministerial license (1848), accounts, 1852-54, also included. Catalogue book of College of California with accounts, 1863-65, and other items. miscellaneous papers, including copy of Thanksgiving Day proclamation [Nov. 29, 1849], of Gov. B[ennet] Riley, with identifying notes by Willey and Joseph C. Rowell; and drafts [?] of sermons, 1849 and 1851.

Parts I and II : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 533:20) and positive.Part III : 1 portfolio.

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