Bynum, Lindley

[Typescript with Corrections of The Record Book of the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino]

[1948]. About very good. 3,45,[1] typescript leaves, plus [6]pp. typed contract and two single-page typed letters. Typescript leaves loose; contract stapled into printed blue wrappers. Light wear and soiling to script leaves, with a few minor chips and very short tears at edges. Copious contemporary manuscript annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Item #1957

Interesting typescript draft of The Record Book of the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, as transcribed by Lindley Bynum, a historian and author who held the position of librarian for California history at the Huntington beginning in 1933. The transcription was made by Bynum from the manuscript record book held by the Huntington, which contains extensive notes on the operations from 1849 to 1854 of the rancho, located in the southwestern corner of present-day San Bernadino County and run by one of the earliest American emigrants to California, Isaac Williams. The typescript contains numerous manuscript annotations and corrections to the text, which was published privately by Bynum in a small number of copies. Useful both for information contained in the record book and as a document of the publication process for an important California historical manuscript.

Price: $450.00