Gray Letters 1876 11 07

Letter

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Museum of History Benicia

The image shows a letter dated November 7, 1876, from Lansing B. Mizner, an attorney at law, addressed to H. H. Bancroft, Esq., Historian. Mizner requests Bancroft to lend printed articles he wrote on "the early times of Benicia" to S. C. Gray, who is preparing a lecture for a charitable institution. Mizner assures that Gray will require the articles for only a few days and promises their prompt return after Gray selects the necessary information. The letter is concluded with Mizner’s signature.

The image shows a letter dated November 7, 1876, from Lansing B. Mizner, an attorney at law, addressed to H. H. Bancroft, Esq., Historian. Mizner requests Bancroft to lend printed articles he wrote on "the early times of Benicia" to S. C. Gray, who is preparing a lecture for a charitable institution. Mizner assures that Gray will require the articles for only a few days and promises their prompt return after Gray selects the necessary information. The letter is concluded with Mizner’s signature.

Name/Title

Gray Letters 1876 11 07

Entry/Object ID

2024.10.1.129

Description

This is a short note from Lansing Mizner (one time US Minister to Central America) to Hubert Howe Bancroft (a historian of the American West who collected and published 39 volumes on the history and peoples of western North America), asking that he loan Mr. Samuel Gray some materials that Mizner had written regarding the history of Benicia. The lecture that Mr. Gray wrote for a Benicia organization may be the source of the narrative printed in the 'History of Solano County, 1879'.

Collection

Benicia Historical Museum Collection

Letter Details

Letter Date

Nov 7, 1876