Letters from California, 1846-1847
first edition
1970 · Berkeley
by Garner, William Robert
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970 First edition, thus. Edited, with a sketch of the life and times of their author, by Donald Munro Craig. xiii, [3], 262pp. Frontispiece, 21 illustrations, 8 photographs. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. Maroon cloth. A very fine copy in dust jacket. The letters consist of thirty in number, written from Monterey just before the Gold Rush by an expatriate Englishman, who became the sheriff of Monterey and secretary to Alcalde Walter Colton.. (Inventory #: 8163)