Lot
835 
(Monterey) "Monterey Jan 5", manuscript postmark (MOT-1610) and matching "12½" cent rating on folded letter datelined "Santa Barbara Dec 9. 1849" from Alpheus B. Thompson to Sonoma concerning trading matters. Estimate $200 - 300.
Alpheus B. Thompson settles in Santa Barbara in 1834. He traded and sailed to the Hawaiian Islands 1836 to 1848. Lewis Adler arrived in California in 1846. A cooper and trader who settled in Sonoma in 1848. Letter was addressed care of Wm. H. Davis, San Francisco on flap, who was a merchant in the bay from 1838 to 1869.
Realized: $350