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Once for all, allowing for the artistic defects inevitable in a disconnected series of private letters, these "Shirley" letters form the best account of an early mining camp that is known to me. This she did in the form of letters written on the spot to her own sister, and collected for publication some two or three years later. The wife of a physician, and herself a well-educated New England woman, "Dame Shirley," as she chooses to call herself, was the right kind of witness to describe for us the social life of a mining camp from actual experience. Together with a reproduction of theĭe la Bodega Spanish Carta General (Map), showing the Spanish discoveries on the Coast up to 1791, and also aįortune has preserved to us from the pen of a very intelligent woman, who writes under an assumed name, a marvelously skillful and undoubtedly truthful history of a mining community during a brief period, first of cheerful prosperity, and then of decay and disorder. Showing the Voyages of the Earliest Explorers on the Coast, the Sea and Land Expeditions ofįor the settlement of California and for founding Missions, andĪn entirely new Index to both the Journal and the Notes, by
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Reprinted line for line and page for page fromīarrington's Miscellanies, published in London in 1781. Translated by theįrom the original Spanish manuscript. Don Francisco Mourelle, the Second Pilot of the Fleet constituting the Sea Division of the Expedition.