Title: 1848 First inquiries in St. Louis from would-be Forty-Niners about travel to California Author: Henry Stagg Place: St. Louis, Missouri Publisher: Date: Dec. 19, 1848 Description: Autograph Letter Signed as St. Louis agent for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. 1pg.+integral stampless address leaf. To Company Secretary Guy R. Phelps, Hartford, Conn. : “Please give me the additional rate upon the life of an individual going to and residing in California. I have several enquiries on this subject and expect to have many more so long as the excitement respecting the Gold region continues…”. An early “gold fever” letter, written two weeks after President Polk officially confirmed the discovery of gold in California. By the end of that year, 6000 “Argonauts” had already come to seek their fortunes, but many of these “forty-eighters” were from Oregon, Hawaii or Latin America. The influx from the eastern United States and Europe had just begun. Lot Amendments Condition: Item number: 247701
Title: 1848 First inquiries in St. Louis from would-be Forty-Niners about travel to California Author: Henry Stagg Place: St. Louis, Missouri Publisher: Date: Dec. 19, 1848 Description: Autograph Letter Signed as St. Louis agent for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. 1pg.+integral stampless address leaf. To Company Secretary Guy R. Phelps, Hartford, Conn. : “Please give me the additional rate upon the life of an individual going to and residing in California. I have several enquiries on this subject and expect to have many more so long as the excitement respecting the Gold region continues…”. An early “gold fever” letter, written two weeks after President Polk officially confirmed the discovery of gold in California. By the end of that year, 6000 “Argonauts” had already come to seek their fortunes, but many of these “forty-eighters” were from Oregon, Hawaii or Latin America. The influx from the eastern United States and Europe had just begun. Lot Amendments Condition: Item number: 247701
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