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Description

Rare Early Edition

Extremely rare letter sheet of San Francisco, with a 2 page letter from M.D.S. Hyde to his family.

The map includes downtown area of Larkin St. The lettered identifications locate Custom House, Post Office, Jenny Lind Theatre, American Theatre, Adelphi Theatre, French Consulate, Prison, Telegraph, City Hall, and U.S. Hospital. The seller of the letter sheet states as follows:

While Baird dates this lettersheet as 1853, Warren Heckrotte, in his "Preliminary List of Maps of San Francisco," notes that he has seen a copy with a letter on verso dated 1852. (See PBA Catalogue 110:337) .

Reference
Clifford Sale (Letter Sheets) 94. Peters, California on Stone, p. 138; Baird p. 148.