Name/Title
LetterEntry/Object ID
2008.015.0243Scope and Content
This is a facsimile of a historic letter having to do with the discovery of gold in California. It was a series put out by the Book Club of California in December of 1948. We have seven of at least a series of 12.
The entire list of letters is:
1. Captain John A. Sutter [to G. McKinstry].-
2. The Sutter-Marshall lease.-
3. Sutter to Leidesdorff.-
4. Edward C. Kemble to John S. Hittell.-
5. 1848: a letter from Thomas O. Larkin to Governor R.B. Mason.-
6. W.D.M. Howard to B.T. Reed, 1848.-
7. Consul Thomas O. Larkin to Secretary of State James Buchanan.-
8. Letter of Captain J.L. Folsom to the Secretary of the National Institute at Washington, D.C.-
9. Letter of Ebenezer Larkin Childs to Thomas O. Larkin.-
10. Rodman M. Price to Thomas O. Larkin.-
11. A letter from Stephen Reynolds to Thomas O. Larkin, November, 1848.-
12. Robert Semple to Thomas O. Larkin.
We have letters 1 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 12
This one is letter 12, from Robert Semple to Thomas O. Larkin dated 12/1848. Semple is upset with Larkin for building houses in Yerba Buena rather than promoting the sale of lots in Benicia. He sees this as driving away business from Benicia and offers to purchase Larkins unsold lots in Benicia for $15,000 in gold dust.Collection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection
