Letters of the gold discovery.
Contributors: Hammond, George Peter, 1896-; Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner.; Book Club of California.; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Keepsake series (Book Club of California) ;; 1948.
Publisher: Book Club of California
Published: 1948
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: California -- Gold discoveries.
Description: Ealry letters and documents describing the gold discoveries in California, in facsimile, with commentary.
Notes: LC set incomplete: nos. 5 and 12 wanting.
"Edited by George P. Hammond ... Edition of 750 copies"--Colophon.
Fourteen folded leaves of facsims. in pockets.
Table of contents: title: No. 1. Captain John A. Sutter; title: no. 2. The Sutter-Marshall lease; title: no. 3. Sutter to Leidesdorff; title: 4. Edward C. Kemble to John S. Hittell; title: 5. Letter from Thomas O. Larkin to Governor R.B. Mason; title: 6. W.D.M. Howard of San Franciso to B.T. Reed of Boston; title: 7. Consul Thomas O. Larkin to Secretary of State James Buchanan; title: 8. Letter of Captain J.L. Folsom to the Secretary of the National Institute in Washington, D.C.; title: 9. Letter of Ebenezer Larkin Childs from Washington, D.C. to Thomas O. Larkin, Monterey, California; title: 10. Rodman M. Price, New York, to Thomas O. Larkin, Monterey, California; title: 11. A letter from Stephen Reynolds of Honolulu to Thomas O. Larkin of San Francisco, November 1848; title: 12. Robert Semple of Benicia City to Thomas O. Larkin at Monterey.