Women in California microfilm set, 1849-1914, [microform].

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Women in California microfilm set, 1849-1914, [microform].

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Letters, diaries, and other manuscripts written by women who were early settlers in California. Also: Jerusha Deming Merrill: Letters (WA MSS S-789 M552) and California Letters (WA MSS S-1114 M552), Helen Nye: Letters (WA MSS S-725 N9835), Ella Pearson: Diary (WA MSS S-1430), Lucetta Dennis Rogers: California Letters (WA MSS S-731 R632), Emily Slater: Letter to Dear Daughter Adeline (WA MSS S-785 S115), Mary S. D. Smith: Letters of a Voyage to California in 1853-1854 (WA MSS S-798 Sm62), Reminiscences of Mrs. E. A. Van Court (WA MSS S-1655 V279), and A Journal Kept by Caroline Williams (WA MSS S-1680).

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Smith, Mary S. D., 1835-

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Lynch, Kate, fl. 1864.

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Allen, Mary M., fl. 1850.

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Pearson, Ella.

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Ella Pearson, of East Machias, Maine, sailed to California in 1869 and lived in Grass Hill and later Union Hill, where she taught school. From the description of Diary of Ella Pearson, 1869-1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702134000 ...

Merrill, Jerusha Deming, 1815-

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Lawrence, Martha C.

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Ballou, Mary Bean, 1809-1894.

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Lewis, Nancy M. Curry.

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Rogers, Lucetta Dennis.

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Andrews, Dorcas.

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Gordon, Betsey, fl. 1854.

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Clark, Mary E., fl. 1859-1881.

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Van Court, E. A., Mrs., b. 1831 or 2.

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Mrs. E. A. Van Court, after growing up near Albany, New York,traveled to California in 1855 to join her husband who had preceded her there in 1853. They lived in San Francisco for several months and then in 1856 began the first of several unsuccessful attempts at ranching in the San Mateo Mountains and the Santa Clara Valley. The couple also briefly operated a hotel near San Jose. After nine years filled with misfortune the Van Courts moved back to the city, first to San Francisco and then to Oa...

Bourne, Julia A. C.

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Williams, Caroline Fanny (British painter, 1836-1921)

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Caroline Williams lived with her parents on a farm in the Mornington district of Victoria. From the description of Diaries [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225771258 ...

Leffingwell, Frances Noyes Howard, 1824-

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Slater, Emily.

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Leffingwell family.

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Nye, Helena May

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Mansur, Abby T. Leighton, d. 1855.

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