Title: Printed and handwritten letter Signed - 1850 New York merchants and a San Francisco Vigilance Committee legend Author: Bluxome, Isaac, Sr., and Joseph Bluxome Place: New York Publisher: Date: May 1, 1850 Description: Printed and handwritten letter Signed (apparently by Isaac Sr. as “Bluxome & Co.”, his brother Joseph then being “absent in San Francisco”), New York, May 1, 1850. 1 page + stampless address leaf. To Jonathan Thompson, New York: "The undersigned have formed a copartnership under the firm of Bluxome & Co. for the transaction of a GENERAL SHIPPING AND COMMISSION BUSINESS at SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. They respectfully solicit consignments of any description of merchandise adapted to the market, and all, orders, consignment or business of any nature entrusted to their charge will receive their prompt attention." Followed by a printed list of references, which includes Thompson and such prominent merchants as fabulously wealthy Moses Taylor. The British-born Bluxome brothers did not pick an auspicious moment to set up business in California; three days after this letter was written, their office was destroyed in the great fire which devastated much of downtown San Francisco. But they rebuilt, and this letter is of historical import because their San Francisco interests were represented by 24 year-old Isaac Jr., an adventurous Forty-Niner soon to become the legendary “33 Secretary” - anonymous Secretary of the Vigilance Committee of 1851, who would personally write foreboding “proclamations” of arrest and execution for this group of wealthy merchants who, in effect, staged a military-style coup d’etat to end the “reign of terror” by “thieves and ruffians” in Gold Rush San Francisco. Lot Amendments Condition: Faint yellowing; very good. Item number: 243548
Title: Printed and handwritten letter Signed - 1850 New York merchants and a San Francisco Vigilance Committee legend Author: Bluxome, Isaac, Sr., and Joseph Bluxome Place: New York Publisher: Date: May 1, 1850 Description: Printed and handwritten letter Signed (apparently by Isaac Sr. as “Bluxome & Co.”, his brother Joseph then being “absent in San Francisco”), New York, May 1, 1850. 1 page + stampless address leaf. To Jonathan Thompson, New York: "The undersigned have formed a copartnership under the firm of Bluxome & Co. for the transaction of a GENERAL SHIPPING AND COMMISSION BUSINESS at SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. They respectfully solicit consignments of any description of merchandise adapted to the market, and all, orders, consignment or business of any nature entrusted to their charge will receive their prompt attention." Followed by a printed list of references, which includes Thompson and such prominent merchants as fabulously wealthy Moses Taylor. The British-born Bluxome brothers did not pick an auspicious moment to set up business in California; three days after this letter was written, their office was destroyed in the great fire which devastated much of downtown San Francisco. But they rebuilt, and this letter is of historical import because their San Francisco interests were represented by 24 year-old Isaac Jr., an adventurous Forty-Niner soon to become the legendary “33 Secretary” - anonymous Secretary of the Vigilance Committee of 1851, who would personally write foreboding “proclamations” of arrest and execution for this group of wealthy merchants who, in effect, staged a military-style coup d’etat to end the “reign of terror” by “thieves and ruffians” in Gold Rush San Francisco. Lot Amendments Condition: Faint yellowing; very good. Item number: 243548
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