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The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

by Dame Shirley (Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe)

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  1. Introduction

    16:08

  2. Letter 01

    32:18

  3. Letter 02

    10:13

  4. Letter 03

    12:27

  5. Letter 04

    10:43

  6. Letter 05

    8:20

  7. Letter 06

    8:03

  8. Letter 07

    16:42

  9. Letter 08

    14:39

  10. Letter 09

    17:06

  11. Letter 10

    15:44

  12. Letter 11

    13:27

  13. Letter 12

    13:14

  14. Letter 13

    13:30

  15. Letter 14

    15:38

  16. Letter 15

    19:16

  17. Letter 16

    5:45

  18. Letter 17

    16:06

  19. Letter 18

    12:03

  20. Letter 19

    23:39

  21. Letter 20

    15:04

  22. Letter 21

    21:29

  23. Letter 22

    19:04

  24. Letter 23

    17:19

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 (1922) is a public domain work.

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From September 1851 to November 1852, Louise Clappe sent twenty-three letters to her sister in Massachusetts from Rich Bar and Indian Bar, two camps on the East Branch of the North Fork of the Feather River. Signing herself Dame Shirley, she set down what she saw: canvas tents and pine-bough shanties, flour packed from Marysville at forty cents a pound, and the harsher business of theft, murder, and lynching. She copied out a fluming company's accounts: thirteen men who reckoned their dam alone at two thousand dollars and closed the season with forty-one dollars and seventy cents in gold-dust. She also noticed what most Gold Rush chroniclers left out, the women and children, and the Spanish-speaking and Native residents the miners pushed aside. Historians rate them among the most reliable records of the diggings, and her eye is dry and exact.

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Dame Shirley (Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe)

Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she was orphaned as a teenager and studied at Amherst Academy. In August 1849 she sailed from New York around Cape Horn with her husband, the physician Fayette Clapp, reaching San Francisco early the following year.

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