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Collection Summary

Collection Title:
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 papers, 1856

Collection Number:
BANC MSS C-A 78

Creator:
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856

Extent:
Number of containers: 1 box and 1 volume

Repository:
The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract:
Correspondence addressed to the Committee and a scrapbook of clippings, May - October 1856, covering the assassination of James King of William and the activities of the Committee.
Also letters, 1853-1855, to Edward McGowan, who was seized by the Committee.
Included are a few letters to Hubert Howe Bancroft relating to the Committee, and some miscellaneous notes.

Languages Represented:
English

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