HISTORY BY HAND

original historic handwritten manuscripts, documents and letters

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Book Number: 405006 (title page)

The Book: The Gold Rush Letters of J. D. B. Stillman, with an introduction by Kenneth Johnson. Published by Lewis Osborne, Palo Alto, 1967. Illus., endpaper maps, small 4to, tan cloth, plain paper dust jacket (chipped, with several tears), 75 pp. Book is in VG condition.

This series of letters provide first-hand descriptions of the city of Sacramento during the gold rush fever. The letters were written by Jacob D. B. Stillman, M.D. who arrived in San Francisco aboard the ship "Pacific" in 1849. Stillman was born in Schenectady, New York in 1819, was educated in New York City, and had been a member of the staff at New York's Bellevue Hospital. The letters contain references to many of his friends and associates as well as to some of his patients. A good first-hand account of early California life.

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