The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Politics and government--1850-1950
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Dupin, Louise Marie Madeleine Fontaine, 1707-1779 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
Published / Created:
[17--]
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 225
Image Count:
27
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript draft of an essay on the Salic law, with additions and corrections in the hand of Madame Louise Dupin. This manuscript is one of a series of essays written by Rousseau at the request of Madame Dupin in preparation for a book which she intended to write on women's rights. The manuscripts are described in Anicet Sénéchal's "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Secrétaire de Madame Dupin" (in Annales de la Société J.-J. Rousseau, vol. 36, 1963-1965, p. 243, item 28) to which has been added a "Note sur la dispersion des papiers Dupin" by B. Gagnebin.
Description:
Modern[?] foliation in pencil. Most versos blank, not digitized.