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Field name | Value |
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Title | Letters from William C Pease to his Parents, 1849 |
Reference | MSS 254, Folder 1 |
Library | Nantucket Historical Association |
Collection | William C Pease Letters / Reed Collection, 1849-1854 |
Collection Series | William C Pease Letters |
Date | 12 Feb 1849-12 Nov 1849 |
Description | Several letters describing life both at sea on board the ship Aurora, and in San Francisco during the early years of the Gold Rush. |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Theme(s) | Trade and Commerce; Employment and Labour; Migration and Immigration |
Keywords | California Gold Rush, gold, gold mining, Gold Rush, voyage, disease, health, personal correspondence, food, prices, mining, weather, president, wharf, potatoes, family |
Countries | USA |
Places | San Francisco |
Ports | Nantucket, USA |
Ships | Aurora |
People | George Washington |
Additional Information | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Nantucket Historical Association catalogue. |
Copyright | Nantucket Historical Association |