Name/Title
"New York Semi-Weekly Times"Entry/Object ID
2012.390.1.1Description
"New York Semi-Weekly Times," 8 November 1867 (Vol. 13, No. 1372.) The newspaper contains an article in columns 4-6 of page 6 consisting of a dispatch from Los Angeles, dated 1 September from "C.L.B.." It has a notable description of Los Angeles and environs, with striking characterizations of the people and undeveloped nature of the area, as well as detailed observations of agriculture and viticulture, especially a visit to the estate of Benjamin D. Wilson and shorter visits to Phineas Banning, Mathew Keller, Pierre Sainsevain and the Wolfskill orchard. Mention is also made of the diminution of crime and lawlessness in the town the correspondent called the "Botany Bay of California and Mexico." The author was Charles Loring Brace, a noted social reformer in New York who visited California after contracting typhoid fever and was in the state from late Spring to October, with his notes resulting in the book, "The New West," published in 1869. With tears, foxing, soiling and creases, the condition is fair.