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Letter from William Wright mentioning Mrs. Tucker's benefit in San Francisco for a colored people's reform association : autograph manuscript

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Title: Letter from William Wright mentioning Mrs. Tucker's benefit in San Francisco for a colored people's reform association : autograph manuscript
Creator: Wright, William
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1883 September 9
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: The letter, addressed to an unnamed correspondent, is written on two sheets of Esmond Hotel pictorial letterhead. The writer mentions that he arrived in Portland the evening before, having left San Francisco on Thursday the 6th, where he "left Mrs. Tucker holding a fair in Platts Hall, for the benefit of -- I don't know what, colored people's reform association, or some similar outfit."
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Portland, Oregon
Type: text
Format: 2 sheets ([2] pages) ; 24 x 16 cm
Language: English
Subject: African Americans
San Francisco (California)
Place: San Francisco (California)

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