Name/Title
Gray Letters 1906 05 03Entry/Object ID
2025.12.1.85Description
This is a letter from Theodore Gray to his sister Gertrude Gray Hart in Benicia dated 05/03/1906. It is on Selby Smelting & Lead Company stationary which is in Contra Costa County. Theo is describing events around the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He talks of the exaggerations about the disaster in the Los Angeles papers. He thinks that SF will rise from the ashes and be as great as it was before. He tells of having decided to accept an offer on their house the night before the earthquake.
