- Creator
- Peters, Henry Hunter
- Call number
- MssCol 2391
- Physical description
- .3 linear feet (2 boxes, 9 v.)
- Preferred Citation
- Henry Hunter Peters papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Henry Hunter Peters, merchant and farmer, had a mercantile business in California and then farmed in Southboro, Mass. Collection consists of diaries, correspondence, accounts, lectures, photographs, and printed matter. Diaries, 1850-1856, describe Peters's journeys by steamer from New York to California and Oregon; his life as a merchant in California during the early period of the gold rush; and life on his dairy farm in Southboro, Mass. Includes personal and business letters; mercantile accounts of Peters and Hazeltine and Scranton and Peters in San Francisco and Sacramento; lectures on farming and on his 1871 trip to Europe; and diary, 1851-1852, of H.C. Leonard in Astoria, Oregon, containing a vocabulary of a North American Indian language (Chinook?) and a daguerreotype portrait of Peters, ca. 1848.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Peters, Mrs. Edward McClure, 1919Key terms
Names
- Peters, Henry Hunter
- Leonard, H. C
- Peters and Hazeltine (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Scranton and Peters (Sacramento, Calif.)
Subjects
- Agriculture -- Study and teaching
- Dairy farming -- Massachusetts
- Gold mines and mining -- California
- Indians of North America -- Languages
Places
- California -- Description and travel
- Europe -- Description and travel
- Oregon -- Description and travel
- Sacramento (Calif.) -- Commerce
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Commerce
- Southborough (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
Occupations
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328
Access to materials
Request an in-person research appointment.Alternative form available
Diaries, 1850-1854, available on microfilm; New York Public Library