Title: Autograph Letter Signed - 1850 “Rough and Ready” Miner on future Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field Author: Arnold, Henry Place: "Rough and Ready", California Publisher: Date: Nov. 6, 1850 Description: ALs. 1pg.+ address leaf and original stampless envelope. To his brother or uncle, Samuel Arnold, Haddam, Conn.: “…George and myself are in good health and are doing well. But not as well as I could if I had more money. I think that we shall make a few thousand as it is this winter. I hope that you have sent the money but if you did not send it… I don’t want you to send it at tall for the Winter will set in before it can get hear. The Coley [Cholera] Is making afful ravages in Sacramento Sitty. It has not got hear yet and the most of the folks think that it wont come in the mountains this fall, the health of this place fine, vary few sick, some have died with the Disntary. I have enjoyed fine health. Steaven Field is a lected as one of the members of the Legislator. I hurd that Dickinson was in Sackrem Sitty trying to get Fields Place…” Henry and George Arnold were among the Connecticut Yankees seeking their fortune in the Gold Rush mining town of Rough and Ready, 60 miles from Sacramento. Samuel Arnold had remained in Haddam, the family’s home town, having already found fame and fortune as owner of a quarry and shipping line. Samuel, a future US Congressman, had also served in the Connecticut House of Representatives, together with William B. Dickinson, another Haddam man who had made the trek to California in time to be elected to the first California Legislature. But Haddam’s favorite son in the Capitol was Marysville Mayor Stephen Field, who, as this letter notes, had just taken Dickinson’s seat in the State Assembly, the start of a long career of public service that would eventually bring him to Washington in 1863 as Lincoln’s choice for Justice of the US Supreme Court. Lot Amendments Condition: Envelope with the usual wear and yellowed; tiny hole on blank leaf of letter; else near fine. Item number: 248986
Title: Autograph Letter Signed - 1850 “Rough and Ready” Miner on future Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field Author: Arnold, Henry Place: "Rough and Ready", California Publisher: Date: Nov. 6, 1850 Description: ALs. 1pg.+ address leaf and original stampless envelope. To his brother or uncle, Samuel Arnold, Haddam, Conn.: “…George and myself are in good health and are doing well. But not as well as I could if I had more money. I think that we shall make a few thousand as it is this winter. I hope that you have sent the money but if you did not send it… I don’t want you to send it at tall for the Winter will set in before it can get hear. The Coley [Cholera] Is making afful ravages in Sacramento Sitty. It has not got hear yet and the most of the folks think that it wont come in the mountains this fall, the health of this place fine, vary few sick, some have died with the Disntary. I have enjoyed fine health. Steaven Field is a lected as one of the members of the Legislator. I hurd that Dickinson was in Sackrem Sitty trying to get Fields Place…” Henry and George Arnold were among the Connecticut Yankees seeking their fortune in the Gold Rush mining town of Rough and Ready, 60 miles from Sacramento. Samuel Arnold had remained in Haddam, the family’s home town, having already found fame and fortune as owner of a quarry and shipping line. Samuel, a future US Congressman, had also served in the Connecticut House of Representatives, together with William B. Dickinson, another Haddam man who had made the trek to California in time to be elected to the first California Legislature. But Haddam’s favorite son in the Capitol was Marysville Mayor Stephen Field, who, as this letter notes, had just taken Dickinson’s seat in the State Assembly, the start of a long career of public service that would eventually bring him to Washington in 1863 as Lincoln’s choice for Justice of the US Supreme Court. Lot Amendments Condition: Envelope with the usual wear and yellowed; tiny hole on blank leaf of letter; else near fine. Item number: 248986
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