Letter : Albion, [Michigan], to his father, 1849 Jan 14.

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Letter : Albion, [Michigan], to his father, 1849 Jan 14.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84040604

ALS written a month after President Polk's message to Congress announcing the gold discoveries in California. Frank writes about business, his plans to open another shop (apparently a general store), and neighbors who are raising a company to go overland to California in the spring, asking his father for advice. His wife Esther also writes a page in which she expresses the hope that Frank will not go to California.

1 item (3 p.) ; 26 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8312281

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hooper, Esther G.

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Hooper, Frank W.

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Frank Hooper, small businessman in Albion, Michigan. According to a letter from Ann Jane Whitney to her parents dated March 18, 1849, Frank had joined a company from Tecumseh, Michigan which planned to go to California. From the description of Letter : Albion, [Michigan], to his father, 1849 Jan 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84040604 From the description of Letter : Albion, [Michigan], to his father, 1849 Jan 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702152926 ...