Letter from Samuel A. Snowden to Samuel D. Snowden. Describes attempts to find ship passage to Pacific coast of North America. Relates details of visit to Mr. Warnack, whose brother went to Oregon some years before.
Cover title., Printed on one side of a continuous sheet folded accordion style and pasted down at the two ends to board covers., "Huiyuan Shen Runfu, chun zu chao ren."
A scrapbook created by Herbert S. Johnson of Adams and Goodell family documents, correspondence, and genealogical research consisting of copies of documents bearing on the genealogy of the Adams and Goodell families in America. Correspondence includes original letters of William Lysander Adams, Olive Frances Goodell, Helen E. Adams, Inez Adams Parker, and Thomas McBride. There is also a typed copy of Inez Parker's 'Early Recollections of Oregon Pioneer Life.'
The 1852 overland journal which Duniway kept as her family crossed the plains to Oregon. Abigail's journal was the basis of her 1859 novel, Captain Gray's Company, which was the first commercially printed novel in Oregon.