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 Captain R.K. Porter, (Deceased), 1901. The Society of California Pioneers Captain R.K. Porter, according to records at the Society of California Pioneers, was born on May 1, 1792 in West Boxford, Mass., and died on Aug. 12th, 1884. We have no further information on him other than this reminiscence which does not refer to his personal life. A Rufus K. Porter, which the same birth and death dates, is also known for his book Aerial Navigation: the practibility of traveling pleasantly and safely from New York to California in three days (New York: H.Smith, 1849). This may be the same person Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 67-70, Vol. 2. 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. This reminiscence pertains to the history of the postal service in San Francisco. It includes a statement written by Edward E. Chever, member of the Historical Committee of the Society of California Pioeners, on March 26, 1892 which is followed by a reprint of a letter R.K. Porter wrote in response to Chever's inquiries concerning the inside arrangement of the San Francisco Post Office in 1849. In Porter's letter he describes the physical arrangement and location of the Post Office, as well as the living conditions of its clerks.
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