Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader Autobiography & Reminiscence of Edward English Chever, "General William T. Sherman's Desk", San Francisco, 1904. The Society of California Pioneers Edward E. Chever sailed on the first vessel to leave Boston for the gold regions of California, the "Saltillo". It left Boston on December 27th, 1848. When the "Saltillo" reached the Straits of Magellan Mr. Chever boarded the "Sea Witch" from New York and completed his journey to California on board that ship. He arrived in San Francisco on June 15th, 1849 Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 61-62, Vol. 7. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. Included in the reminiscence are three handwritten pages of correspondence. This reminiscence is Edward E. Chever's statement regarding the authenticity of a desk given to The Society of California Pioneers that was supposed to have been previously owned by William T. Sherman. Included is Mr. Chever's statement, a handwritten letter from the wife of the man who donated the desk to the Society, and another handwritten letter from Pierre B. Cornwall, a former President of The Society of California Pioneers, attesting to the desk's authenticity.
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