Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Alphonse Antoine Delepine Papers,
- Dates:
- 1850-1852
- Creators:
- Delepine, Alphonse Antoine, 1824-1886
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Alphonse Antoine Delepine Papers, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Travel itinerary, correspondence. Original manuscript material is in French; all having been translated into English except a marriage license and about one page of travels. Translation includes material the library did not receive in French.
- Biographical / historical:
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Delephine was born in Paris in 1823/24? He was a member of the Jacques Araga Company of speculators and travelled with thme via Cape Horn on the l'Edouard arriving in California in 1848 or 1849. He was later captured by Indians. Although a physician by profession and a student of law, he followed neither of these professions and died in Versailles, France in 1886.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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Please credit California State Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Alphonse Antoine Delepine Papers, California State Library.
- Location of this collection:
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900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US
- Contact:
- (916) 654-0176