Kelly correspondence, 1895; 1910.
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Dever, Dern J.
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was incorporated in 1848 to engage in the steamship business after receiving a contract from the U.S. government to provide mail service between Panama and the Oregon coast. The organizer and first president of the company was William H. Aspinwall. The company prospered, expanded its fleet, and began service to the Orient in 1867. By the mid-1880s they were sailing to 47 ports across the Pacific Ocean, including ports in Central America and Mexico. T...
Kelly, Lila.
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Lila Kelly is listed as a "student" in Oakland city directories between 1895 and 1898. After that date she is no longer resident in Oakland and by 1910 she was evidently living in Hayward. A "Mrs. Lila G. Kelly Provost" is listed in the University of California Alumni Directory as having attended classes there in 1909. One of the two letters to Miss Kelly in this collection is from a Dern J. Dever, who is apparently an employee of the Pacific Mail Steamship Line and a suitor (1895). The other le...
