Richard Dering Letters, 1858 - 1879 (MSS 250)

Extent: .4 Linear feet (1 archives box)

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Letters providing a detailed account of Dering's activities and travels in Sonora, Baja California, the islands of the Gulf of California, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. Written principally from Isla Elide, Georges Island, Guaymas, Magdalena Bay, and San Francisco.

An agent of the Lower California Company, Dering was an early settler at Magdalena Bay, Baja California, Mexico originally from Sag Harbor, New York. He was active in the orchilla and guano trades, and also lived in San Francisco. Dering died at Magdalena Bay on 16 March 1873.

Letters providing a detailed account of Dering's activities and travels in Sonora, Baja California, the islands of the Gulf of California, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. Written principally from Isla Elide, Georges Island, Guaymas, Magdalena Bay, and San Francisco. Includes 63 letters from Dering to his sisters, Frances M. Dering and Elizabeth P. Dering of Sag Harbor, and 7 letters between Elizabeth and others following his death.

This collection was digitized in 2016 for inclusion in the Adam Matthew subscription database Frontier Life: borderlands, settlement & colonial encounters.

Container List

LETTERS

Box 1 Folder 4
R. Dering to sisters, Guaymas, Mexico, 1861 March 10
Box 1 Folder 5
R. Dering to sisters, Guaymas, Mexico, 1861 April 29
Box 1 Folder 15
R. Dering to sister, Guaymas, Mexico, 1862 July 28
Box 1 Folder 16
R. Dering to sister, Guaymas, Mexico, 1862 October 30
Box 1 Folder 17
R. Dering to sisters, Guaymas, Mexico, 1862 December 10
Box 1 Folder 18
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1865 August 2
Box 1 Folder 19
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1865 August 2
Box 1 Folder 20
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1865 August 17
Box 1 Folder 21
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1865 August 17
Box 1 Folder 25
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1865 September
Box 1 Folder 29
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1866 January 28
Box 1 Folder 30
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1866 January 29
Box 1 Folder 33
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1866 March 18
Box 1 Folder 34
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1866 March 18
Box 1 Folder 35
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1866 June 17
Box 1 Folder 36
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1866 June 17
Box 1 Folder 37
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1866 July 4
Box 1 Folder 38
R. Dering to sisters, San Francisco, California, 1866 July 29
Box 1 Folder 40
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1866 October 29
Box 1 Folder 45
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1867 April 28
Box 1 Folder 46
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1867 July 28
Box 1 Folder 47
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1868 January 28
Box 1 Folder 48
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1868 January 29
Box 1 Folder 50
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1870 May 22
Box 1 Folder 51
R. Dering to sister, San Diego, California, 1870 August 9
Box 1 Folder 52
R. Dering to sister, Magdalena Bay, Mexico, 1870 October 2
Box 1 Folder 53
R. Dering to sister, Magdalena Bay, Mexico, 1870 October 2
Box 1 Folder 54
R. Dering to sister, Magdalena Bay, Mexico, 1870 October 30
Box 1 Folder 55
R. Dering to sister, Magdalena Bay, Mexico, 1870 October 30
Box 1 Folder 58
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1872 January 9
Box 1 Folder 59
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1872 January 11
Box 1 Folder 60
R. Dering to sister, Magdalena Bay, Mexico, 1872 January 29
Box 1 Folder 62
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1872 March 10
Box 1 Folder 63
R. Dering to sister, San Francisco, California, 1872 March 20
Box 1 Folder 64
Capt. Isham to Capt. Hedges, ca. 1873
Box 1 Folder 71
Miscellaneous envelopes, 1858-1872
Box 1 Folder 72
Newspaper clippings, 1871 November

Includes: "Startling News from Lower California," The Daily Union, 1871 November 25 and "The Lower California Revolution," [unidentified newspaper], ca. 1871 November.