San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 papers
Contributors: McGowan, Edward, 1813-1893; Online Archive of California
Published: 1856
Language: eng
Subjects: Vigilance committees; Crime
Other titles: Hubert Howe Bancroft collection.
Description: Correspondence addressed to the Committee and a scrapbook of clippings, May - October 1856, covering the assassination of James King of William and the activities of the Committee.

Also letters, 1853-1855, to Edward McGowan, who was seized by the Committee.

Included are a few letters to Hubert Howe Bancroft relating to the Committee, and some miscellaneous notes.
Notes: National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Also available on microfilm.

Finding aid available in Library. Electronic version available on the Internet.

Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.