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W. C. Winston Letters to His Father, 1849 June 5-1849 February 19

1 folder
Collection Creator:
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Dates:
1849 June 5-1849 February 19
Located In:
Box 1, Folder 7
Extent:
1 folder
Languages:
English
Scope and Contents

Two letters from Virginia man W.C. Winston to his father, A. Winston at Culpepper Court House in Virginia. The letters describe the younger Winston's overland journey from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in April and May 1849 during the California Gold Rush, as well as the various business transactions made in preparation for the journey. The letter from June 5th offers an account of the trip from Arkansas to New Mexico, and Winston writes in great detail about the landscape and lack of game encountered along the way. Winston also offers details on the hardships on the journey and his optimism for the future once the group arrived in New Mexico. The other letter, written in Baltimore on February 19, 1849, details various financial and commercial dealings W.C. Winston completed prior to his journey.

Access Restrictions:
The collection is open for research use.
Acquisition:

AM 2017-78

Credit this material:

W. C. Winston Letters to His Father; Princeton University Library Collection of Western Americana Miscellaneous Manuscripts, C1446, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Storage Note:
Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
System Identifier:
/repositories/5/archival_objects/873081

Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Description:

The collection consists of miscellaneous source material--letters, documents, and other separate, unbound manuscript items--pertaining to the history of the American West and Southwest in the 19th century, largely from the perspective of white settlers. Subjects include Native Americans, overland travel, settlement, mining, railroads, and business ventures. A number of items relate to the California Gold Rush.

The Princeton Collections of Western Americana were born with the 1947 gift of the collection of imprints and manuscripts focused on overland narratives, the cattle trade, and the Rocky Mountain West gathered by Philip Ashton Rollins, Class of 1889, and his wife, Beulah (Pack) Rollins. Their gift not only reoriented all previous acquisitions in the subject at Princeton, but remains a lodestone attracting other Western collections.

This miscellaneous collection contains small accessions of Western Americana-related material that the Library has acquired from 2013 to 2020. No additions will be made to this collection. Accessions relating to this topic will be added to the General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection (C0140).

Collection History

Acquisition:

AM 2017-78

Archival Appraisal Information:

No materials were removed during processing.

Access & Use

Access Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Conditions for Reproduction and Use:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Credit this material:

W. C. Winston Letters to His Father; Princeton University Library Collection of Western Americana Miscellaneous Manuscripts, C1446, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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Storage Note:
Firestone Library (mss): Box 1

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