⚠ a rambling/satirical letter ⭐ on Baja pearls & silver (offered $3,000 for 33 oz of pearls + ~1,000 marks of silver, awaiting a buyer who might pay up to $20,000) interwoven with mission-command gossip (a disputed *comandancia*, a drunken Sunday quarrel ending with a friar drawing a measuring-stick on a corporal, accusations of a friar sleeping with Indian women) — hard to read
| Date | 1807-12-14 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Fr. Pablo María de Zárate |
| To | Arrillaga |
| Place | Mission San José [del Cabo, Baja Calif.?] |
| Series | Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military) |
| Tomo | XX–XXXIX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | 247–53 |
| Savage copy page | 313–315 |
| Scan leaf | n312–314 |
| Document type | abstract (letter) |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Fr. Pablo María de Zárate to Arrillaga, Mission San José [del Cabo, Baja Calif.?], 1807-12-14, Provincial State Papers, Benicia (Military), XX–XXXIX, 247–53, Archives of California, C-A 16, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within XX–XXXIX]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca16/ca16-d534.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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