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Samuel Millikan letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 944
Scope and Contents

Eleven typewritten copies and one holograph. In letters to his wife, Rhoda, Millikan describes the difficulties and fears of a man travelling over the plains to Salt Lake Valley, Utah, and on to the California gold fields. His letters, while descriptive of the terrain and events encountered, are full of love and yearning for home and family.

Dates: 1850