Claremont Colleges, Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library

The N. A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters Collection consists of fifty-four handwritten letters from 1855 to 1872. Fifty-three of these letters are from N. A. Chandler to Jane M. Chandler and one letter is from Jane M. Chandler to N. A. Chandler. Three letters were written on picture sheets, two from California displaying Gold Rush motifs and one from Lowell Massachusetts displaying statistics of Lowell Manufactures for 1859. The arrangement of these letters is chronological from earliest to most recent, and the bulk of these letters are from 1855 to 1865. Almost all of these letters have notations by John I. Perkins in pencil on the first page at the top. Pencil marks also exist to highlight certain parts of the text pertaining to the titles.