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[Proceedings of the Friends of a Rail Road to San Francisco, at their public meeting, held at the U. S. Hotel, in Boston, April 19, 1849. Including an address to the People of the United States] "Rail Road to San Francisco" (Caption title).
[Probably Boston, 1849]. (CALIFORNIA RAILROADS) 8vo. 24 pages. Disbound, stitchmarks, some spotting and soiling, else a very good copy. Cowan p. 513, the first pamphlet on California Railroads in Cowan by some four years. ¶ The meeting of the Friends of a Rail Road to California at the United States Hotel in Boston April 19, 1849 with P. P. F. DeGrand's address "To the People of the United States. Rail Road from St. Louis to San Francisco." The appendix contains his "Remarks" from the opening of the South Shore Railroad, January 1, 1849, the text of a letter written to the Rev. Thomas F. Norris, Editor of the "Olive Branch" in Boston on Colonel Thomas H. Benton's speech and on the Rail Road to San Francisco. DeGrand's report and plan was approved by the "Friends" and its presentation to the President and Congress as well as the Governors of the states and territories. In the minutes it is noted that a letter was read from William Hooper in California "confirming the previous accounts of the abundance of Gold." The title and imprint were apparently on the wrappers as the caption title is all that is present on this copy
Offered for US$ 250.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 23632