Berkeley no relation Southern California Quarterly
The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton 1836–1839
Atherton gave an eyewitness account as a twenty-one year old Bostonian of his hide and tallow trading days in Mexican California. It also makes references to historic sites such as the 
Mission San José and Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and the settlement of Alviso and areas of San Francisco Bay. The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton 1836 - 1839 was published in 1964 by the California Historical Society and edited by the historian and former professor at UCLA, Doyce B. Nunis Jr.The publication of Atherton's California Journal has been described as a singular event in the recorded history of California. As a young man from New England, Atherton vividly recorded much of the turbulent change and innovation in the California of the 1830s. The Editor of the journal, Dr. Nunis was the editor of the Southern California Quarterly during the 1960s and when promoting his book in the December 1964 edition of The California Historical Society Quarterly was quoted saying:Family papers
The Faxon Dean Atherton family papers are held by the California Historical Society. Other papers are held at Berkeley, California.