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Guide to the Papers Relating to California Pioneers and to California History

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Guide to the Papers Relating to BANC MSS C-R 91 1 California Pioneers and to California History Guide to the Papers Relating to California Pioneers and to California History

Collection number: BANC MSS C-R 91

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Collection Summary Collection Title: Papers Relating to California Pioneers and to California History Collection Number: BANC MSS C-R 91 Creator: Wolfe, Linnie Marsh, 1881-1945 Extent: Number of containers: 2 boxes 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: A few autobiographical sketches collected by Mrs. Wolfe; research notes; transcripts of letters, diaries, and articles; occassional correspondence with families of pioneers, etc. Include material relating to the following people - John Marsh, Kimball family, John Muir, George C. Yount, Harlan family, Bret Harte, Morgan family, Mendenhall family, Nobles family, Norton family, and others; and to the following places - Concord, Crockett, Mt. Diablo, Pacheco, San Ramon and adjacent valleys, Antioch, Nortonville, Lake County, etc. Also: notes on some California land grants, Franciscan missions, gold rush, etc. Languages Represented: English Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft

Guide to the Papers Relating to BANC MSS C-R 91 2 California Pioneers and to California History Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Papers relating to California pioneers and to California history, BANC MSS C-R 91, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Material Cataloged Separately [Miscellaneous Correspondence Pertaining to the Publication of “The Victory” by Charles Keeler] removed to Keeler Family Papers, Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-H 105, May 1960 Printed copy of the Genealogical Chart of the Yount Family cataloged as Identifier/Call Number: xF864.Y6W3.

Box 1, Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). A Resume of Diaries, Letters & Narratives of California Pioneers folder Folder 1 Collected by Linnie Marsh Wolfe. folder Folder 2 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes, Clipping, Folder, Picture Pertaining to the Franciscan Missions in California] folder Folder 3 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Notes on Ten Articles in Series, Gold Hunters of California, in Century Magazine Vol. XLI (New Series Vol. XIX) Nov. 1890-Apr. 1891] folder Folder 4 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Notes on "Crossing the Plains in '49" by G. W. Thissell] folder Folder 5 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Transcripts of Land Cases Relating to Various Spanish Grants: Rancho Arroyo de las Nueces y Los Golgones Rancho Laguna de Palos Colorados, Rancho Monte Del Diablo, Rancho Acalanes, Rancho El Pinole, Rancho Los Meganos] folder Folder 6 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes on Land Controversies] folder Folder 7 Gehringer, A. C. (Mrs.) History of Concord and Vicinity folder Folder 8 Keith, J. Speech [on the History of Crockett, Calif.]. With this: copy of speech by Thomas Edwards (6 p.) (cf. BANC MSS C-D 5126). Speeches made at a Contra Costa County historical group meeting organized by Linnie Marsh Wolfe, 1933? folder Folder 9 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes & Clippings Pertaining to Mt. Diablo] folder Folder 10 Loucks, Annie (Lieber). History of Pacheco, [with Further Notes on Pacheco and a Biographical Sketch of Annie Lieber Loucks] folder Folder 11 Goold, Alice & Wood, Charlotte. Pioneer Memories of San Ramon and Adjacent Valleys. Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe. folder Folder 12 Nevins, Kate Lockwood. Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings, Cards, etc., Chiefly Concerning the Cooperative Brotherhood of Winter's Island, March 25, 1893-Sept. 13, 1933. folder Folder 13 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes on the Harlan Family] folder Folder 14 Hall, Ida S. Bret Harte in Contra Costa. (Typescript with Photograph.) Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe folder Folder 15 Jones, Mary Annie (Smith). The Story of My Life. With an Earlier Draft. Edited by Flora M. Jones & Linnie Marsh Wolfe. With letters of Flora M. Jones to Mrs. Wolfe & copy of "Rancho Romero." (Another Copy Cataloged As Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-D 5090 - Abridged) folder Folder 16 Kimball, George W. [Journal of Voyage March 2-Aug. 23, 1850, As Master of California Packet, Boston to San Francisco, with Subsequent Entries of Accounts, Memoranda, Poems, etc.] Original MS Cataloged As Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-F 10. folder Folder 17 Schott, Adelia (Kimball). Antioch School in Pioneer Days. Box 2, Schott, Louisa A. Memories of Captain George Kimball. With Incomplete First Draft. folder Folder 18 Dictated to Linnie Marsh Wolfe. folder Folder 19 Schott, Louisa A. The Early Days of Antioch.

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folder Folder 20 Schott, Louisa A. To Linnie Marsh Wolfe: [Correspondence] folder Folder 21 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes, etc., on George Kimball] (cf. Schott, Louisa A., Memories... etc.) folder Folder 22 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Clippings Pertaining to Jack London] folder Folder 23 Soberanes, Irene (Sewell). The Story of Dr. John Marsh & His Family. folder Folder 24 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Notes on "John Marsh, Pioneer" by George D. Lyman; clippings, etc., re John Marsh.] folder Folder 25 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes on the Mendenhall Family] folder Folder 26 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Notes on Jerry Morgan & The Morgan Family] folder Folder 27 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). Granny Norton and Her Ghost. With Preliminary Material. folder Folder 28 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes, Clippings Pertaining to Nortonville, Somersville and Their Pioneer Residents] folder Folder 29 Williams, Starr King. To Linnie Marsh Wolfe: [Two Letters Concerning Sarah...Norton] folder Folder 30 Knapp, Frank M. To Linnie Marsh Wolfe: [Three Letters Concerning Sarah...Norton] folder Folder 31 Smith, James D. [Two Letters of Reminiscences] folder Folder 32 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes on the Smith Family] folder Folder 33 Campbell, Inez. Ode to Rancho Romero folder Folder 34 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Material for School Use Relating to John Muir] folder Folder 35 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). The Three Johns of Contra Costa. folder Folder 36 [Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh)]. California Riches folder Folder 37 [Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh)]. Visiting Day in the Little Red Schoolhouse. folder Folder 38 Wright, Kate H. A Short Pageant of California History. folder Folder 39 Nobles, William M. & Nobles, Mary Ellen (Reeves). Memories of Pioneer Life in Lake County. With Additional Pages of Revision. Dictated to Linnie Marsh Wolfe. (A Fair Copy of pages 1-41 is cataloged as v. 1 of this collection). folder Folder 40 Nobles, William M. & Nobles, Mary Ellen (Reeves). To Linnie Marsh Wolfe. With Map, and Letter from Linnie Marsh Wolfe to Mr. & Mrs. Nobles and Miscellaneous Notes. folder Folder 41 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes, Letters & Photographs Pertaining to Early Lake County History]. folder Folder 42 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes & Clippings Pertaining to Marin County, California.] folder Folder 43 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes & Clippings Pertaining to Napa County, California.] folder Folder 44 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Note and Clipping Pertaining to Mt. St. Helena.] folder Folder 45 Watson, Elizabeth Ann. Sketch of the Life of George C. Yount. With Genealogical Chart of the Yount Family. folder Folder 46 North, John Wesley. To George S. Loomis: [Copies of Four Letters]. With the Above, Copy of Covering Letter By His Granddaughter, Mary Burt Messer, and Additional Biographical Material. folder Folder 47 Contents removed for separate cataloging folder Folder 48 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous Notes Pertaining to Mills College, Oakland, California] folder Folder 49 Wolfe, Linnie (Marsh). [Miscellaneous]. volume Volume 1 Memories of Pioneer Life in Lake County Related By William M. Nobles, 1856-1943, and His Wife, Mary Ellen (Reeves) Nobles, 1862-1936, to Linnie Marsh Wolfe, 1935 volume Volume 2 Memories of Pioneer Childhood and Youth in French Corral and North San Juan, Nevada County, California, With A Brief Narrative of Later Life, Told By Edith White, 1855-, Emigrant of 1859, To Linnie Marsh Wolfe.

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