San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 papers, 1856

Summary

Creators:

San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856

Abstract:

Correspondence addressed to the Committee and a scrapbook of clippings, May - October 1856, covering the assassination of James King of William and the activities of the Committee.
Also letters, 1853-1855, to Edward McGowan, who was seized by the Committee.
Included are a few letters to Hubert Howe Bancroft relating to the Committee, and some miscellaneous notes.

Extent:

Number of containers: 1 box and 1 volume

Language:

English

Background

Physical location:

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Related resources

Other descriptive data:

These documents, used and extensively quoted by Hubert Howe Bancroft in his Popular Tribunals, v. 2, contain letters dated 1853-1855, seized by the Vigilance Committee in 1856; letters to the Committee, Apr.-Oct. 1856; letters to Bancroft concerning his publication; a few notes; a scrapbook of clippings, May-Oct. 1856; and some loose clippings.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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