The Shirley Letters from
California Mines
In 1851-52

Being a Series of Twenty-three Letters from
DAME SHIRLEY
(mrs. louise amelia knapp smith clappe)

To her Sister in Massachusetts
And now Reprinted from the
Pioneer Magazine
of 1854-55

with
Synopses of the Letters, a Foreword, and many
Typographical and other Corrections
and Emendations, by

THOMAS C. RUSSELL

Together with "An Appreciation" by
Mrs. M. V. T. Lawrence

ILLUSTRATED

SAN FRANCISCO
Printed by THOMAS C. RUSSELL, at his Private Press
1734 Nineteenth Avenue
1922

COPYRIGHT, 1922
BY THOMAS C. RUSSELL