Family Correspondence and Miscellany

Résumé du livre

Family correspondence, photocopies of miscellaneous biographical and genealogical material, and a photostatic copy of Woods' will, with 42 codicils. Correspondence consists of 58 handwritten letters (1850-1862), 46 of which were written by Woods in San Francisco to his family in Boston, describing the San Francisco business climate, mining conditions, fires, vigilantism, duels, and social growth and change. Most the letters are to his mother, Jane Churchill Woods, or to his daughter, Georgianna, with one letter to his wife, Emaline. The remaining letters are chiefly written by his wife and daughter. Includes one photocopy of a letter from 1849, written by Woods to his mother, en route to Calif.