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Personal correspondence with the family.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anthony, Edward G. H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barks (Sailing ships).
- Commerce.
- Families.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Hymns.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Pioneers.
- Seafaring life.
- Ships.
- Voyages and travels.
- Weather.
- Atlantic Ocean--Chesapeake Bay.
- California--San Francisco.
- Chile--Cape Horn.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Ohio--Cincinnati.
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1848-1850.
- Summary:
- Letters from or concerning Edward G H Anthony, a Gold Rush forty-niner who sailed aboard the bark Susan as a member of the New York and California Aurelian Company. While some letters precede the voyage and are written from Cincinnati and Chesapeake Bay, most of the letters from Anthony to his family are written during or since the voyage. Includes one newspaper clipping of an excerpt from a letter written by Anthony in 1849 from San Francisco.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MS 61, folder 1
- Collection: Edward G H Anthony Letters: 1848-1853
- The California Aurelian Company was a gold mining company formed by several individuals who sailed from New York to San Francisco, via Cape Horn, beginning c. April and arriving October 1849.Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the California Historical Society's North Baker Research Library catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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