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Title: Long letter to J.E. from William and Nancy Pleasants
Creator: Pleasants family, Collector
Contributor: Pleasants family, Collector
Date Created and/or Issued: 1864-07-04
1864-07-23
July 4 - 23, 1864
Publication Information: Special Collections and Archives. The UC Irvine Libraries, Main Library 5th Floor, PO Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557; http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/special/special.html
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Orange County Regional History Collection
Collection: Pleasants Family Papers
Rights Information: Material in public domain. No restrictions on use
Description: Writes of letter received from J.E. in which many misfortunes are recounted; much about Eel River county where they planned to take their horses; of mortgage on Milt Wolfskill's farm - $6000; Sackett also in trouble; Alice and Martha, daughters of William J. Pleasants are mentioned; about Walter Reavis who went to Mazatlan to escape conscription
Letter is missing pages 5-12
Type: text
Format: 1 letter : 24 pages
Form/Genre: Letters--California--19th century
Letters--19th century
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb5q2nb3bj
cui-ms-r44-188
Language: English
Subject: Pleasants, Joseph E. (Joseph Edward), 1839-1934
Pleasants family--Correspondence
Place: Orange County (Calif.)
History
19th century
California

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