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Begun at
Santa Barbara Cal
February 12 15 1917-
, Mon 15               
Mail to be charged
To Vickery's Art Gallery
550 Sutter St 57

[[image]] [[right of image]] Sacramento

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Souvenirs and Remenicences 1
A "book of remembrance"
1852    Maluchi3 

I have no recollection of the place in which I was born, but an old diary [[*left margin]]about 150 words to a page[[/left margin]]of my Fathers, which I once saw, written in Hannibal Missouri under date of September 23rd 1852 contained the following - "Shooting this morning with Carroll. Child, boy, born this evening. weighed nine pounds. Dr. So-and-so and Mrs So-and-so in attendence" - This Mr. Carroll appears to have been an Irish gentleman of sporting tastes who was out seeing America and who was my God Father, after whom I was named. How we happened at Hannibal Mo in a little nebulous but, my Father had been a teacher in the Oxford N.Y. Academy, where he was educated. And was a Surveyor, and the lands bordering upon the Missippi at that early date needed mathematical subdivision, thus through

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150 72 300 10500 10.800 min Please note, this is my first time transcribing. There was a multiplication calculation on the inside cover right margin. I was not sure how to translate this. Did I do this correctly or is there another way to write out something like this? [[image]]-Image of Northern California Cities/Bodies of water from Napa,CA to San Jose, CA