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Title
Letter from Thomas J. Henley to G.W. Manypenny with an enlcosed letter from J. Montgomery Peters, 1854
Creator
Henley, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1810-1865
Contributor
Manypenny, George Washington, 1809-1893
Peters, J. Montgomery
Date Created and/or Issued
1854
1854-10-09
1854-10-14
2008
Publication Information
County of Los Angeles Public Library
Contributing Institution
LA County Library
Collection
Letters of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1849-1880, California Superintendency
Rights Information
This material is in the public domain. COLAPL's microfilm version of this material was obtained from the United States National Archives and Records Administration, which also possesses the original documents.
Description
Enclosed within is a letter from J. Montgomery Peters. Henley believes that the Indians shouldn't be fed in their current location and should instead be established on the Klamath River near the coast and plans to visit the location in Spring. Peters mentions The Salmon, the Lower Trinity, and Eel Rivers. He mentions that many of the Indians in his letter are on the main highways leading from Trinidad in Klamath Company from Union town and other areas such as Humboldt County.
Type
Image
Format
Letters
application/pdf
Identifier
MF1323.1197 Reel 33_0397.pdf
http://cdm15952.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15952coll4/id/450
Language
English
Subject
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Indians of North America--California--Government relations--Sources
Source
35 mm microfilm, MFL 323.1197, Reel 33;
Relation
Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1881, California Superintendency, 1849-1880

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