GOLD RUSH – SWART, A. Autograph letter signed to Harriet Swart of Port Jackson, NY, Auburn, California, 2 March 1856.
Four pages, 245 x 195mm, with original transmittal envelope, slip of paper and about seven flakes of gold.
A rare survival of actual flakes of gold from the California Gold Rush, still enclosed in the original transmittal letter. In part: “I send you home a sample of our gold such as we are dig[g]ing out every day … it is fine dust and has been gathered with quicksilver and does not look so brite as that does which has had none; one cannot gather the fine gold without it.”
GOLD RUSH – SWART, A. Autograph letter signed to Harriet Swart of Port Jackson, NY, Auburn, California, 2 March 1856.
Four pages, 245 x 195mm, with original transmittal envelope, slip of paper and about seven flakes of gold.
A rare survival of actual flakes of gold from the California Gold Rush, still enclosed in the original transmittal letter. In part: “I send you home a sample of our gold such as we are dig[g]ing out every day … it is fine dust and has been gathered with quicksilver and does not look so brite as that does which has had none; one cannot gather the fine gold without it.”
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