The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

The Shirley Letters from
California Mines
by Louise
Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

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Title: The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Author: Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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The Shirley Letters
Other REPRINTS Issued
CALIFORNIA. A HISTORY of UPPER & LOWER CALIFORNIA
from their FIRST DISCOVERY to the PRESENT TIME [1835].
Comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions,
Agriculture, Commerce, &c. A full view of the Missionary
Establishments, and condition of the free and domesticated Indians.
With an Appendix relating to Steam-navigation in the Pacific.
ILLUSTRATED with a new Map, Plans of the Harbors, and numerous
Engravings. By ALEXANDER FORBES, Esq. Reprinted, page for
page, and approximately line for line, from the original edition
published by Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1839, and to which is added
a NEW INDEX.
Price $10, net.
VOYAGE of the SONORA in the SECOND BUCARELI
EXPEDITION to EXPLORE the NORTHWEST COAST, SURVEY
the PORT of SAN FRANCISCO, and FOUND FRANCISCAN
MISSIONS and a PRESIDIO and PUEBLO at that PORT. The
JOURNAL kept in 1775 on the SONORA by DON FRANCISCO
MOURELLE, the Second Pilot of the Fleet constituting the Sea
Division of the Expedition. Translated by the HON. DAINES
BARRINGTON from the original Spanish manuscript. Reprinted line
for line and page for page from BARRINGTON'S MISCELLANIES,
published in London in 1781. With concise NOTES showing the
Voyages of the Earliest Explorers on the Coast, the Sea and Land
Expeditions of GÁLVEZ and of BUCARELI for the settlement of
California and for founding Missions, and MANY OTHER

INTERESTING NOTES, as well as AN ENTIRELY NEW INDEX TO
BOTH THE JOURNAL AND THE NOTES, by THOMAS C.
RUSSELL. Together with a reproduction of the DE LA BODEGA
SPANISH CARTA GENERAL (MAP), showing the Spanish
discoveries on the Coast up to 1791, and also a PORTRAIT of
BARRINGTON.
Price $15, net.
NARRATIVE of EDWARD McGOWAN. Including a full Account of
the Author's ADVENTURES and PERILS while persecuted by the
SAN FRANCISCO VIGILANCE COMMITTEE of 1856. Together
with a Report of his Trial, which resulted in his Acquittal. Reprinted,
line for line and page for page, from the original edition published by
the author in 1857, complete, with reproductions, in facsimile, of the
original illustrations, cover-page title, and title-page.
Price $10, net.
These works are printed in limited editions. Copies are numbered and
signed. The typesetting is all done by hand, and the type distributed
immediately upon completion of presswork. The printing, in all its
details, is the personal work of THOMAS C. RUSSELL, at 1734
Nineteenth Avenue, San Francisco, California. Descriptive circulars
sent free, upon request.

This Book
is one of an edition of four hundred and fifty (450) numbered and
signed copies, the impressions being taken upon hand-set type, which
was distributed upon completion of the presswork. In two hundred (200)
copies Exeter book-paper is used, leaf-size being 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches;
in two hundred (200) copies, buff California bond-paper, 8-3/8 x 5-1/2;
in fifty (50) copies, thin buff California bond-paper, 6 x 9.
THIS COPY is No. 26 California bond-paper.

(Signed)
Thomas C. Russell

The SHIRLEY LETTERS from CALIFORNIA Mines In 1851-52
Being a SERIES of TWENTY-THREE LETTERS from DAME
SHIRLEY (MRS. LOUISE AMELIA KNAPP SMITH CLAPPE) To
her SISTER in MASSACHUSETTS And now REPRINTED from the
PIONEER MAGAZINE of 1854-55
WITH SYNOPSES of the LETTERS, a FOREWORD, and MANY
TYPOGRAPHICAL and other CORRECTIONS and
EMENDATIONS, by THOMAS C. RUSSELL
Together with "An APPRECIATION" by MRS. M. V. T. LAWRENCE
ILLUSTRATED
SAN FRANCISCO PRINTED by THOMAS C. RUSSELL, at his
PRIVATE PRESS 1734 NINETEENTH AVENUE 1922
COPYRIGHT, 1922 BY THOMAS C. RUSSELL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Printer's Foreword to this Edition
I SPEAK TO THE READER; LET THE WRITER LISTEN
Oriental Proverb (adapted)
CALIFORNIA, by Dr. Josiah Royce, in the handsome as well as handy
American Commonwealths series, is commonly regarded as the best

short history of California ever written, and particularly so as to the
early mining era. Dr. Royce knew his state, and a more competent
writer could hardly have been selected. Reviewing, in his history,
almost