Is someone going to the State Library? I would like to find out if someone can look at a couple of records at the State Library, and let me know if they can copy the, and the cost.. They are Biography of first Cal. legislature, [1850]; Holograph document recording brief biographical information about individual legislators from the first California legislature. Composition of the document was proposed by Assemblyman John S. Bradford; each legislator composed and inscribed his own brief entry. Appended to this document are two letters of transmittal from Stephen Addington of the publishing firm of Addington and Green detailing provenance. With the volume is a photostatic copy of an article that appeared in the Sacramento bee on June 5, 1886 which describes the history of the document and transcribes the entries. Here is the list of the names of the men that were there: Subject Aram, Joseph, 1810-1898. Subject Baldwin, Drury P. Subject Bateman, Ebenezer Bower. Subject Bidwell, John, 1819-1900. Subject Broderick, David C. (David Colbreth), 1820-1859. Subject Brown, Elam. Subject Cave, John. Subject Chamberlain, E. Kirby (Ephraim Kirby), 1805-1852. Subject Cory, Benjamin, 1822-1896. Subject Covarrubias, Jose Maria, ca. 1801-1870. Subject Crittenden, Alexander Parker, 1816-1870. Subject Crosby, Elisha Oscar, 1818-1895. Subject Douglass, David F., 1821-1872. Subject Fair, William D. Subject Gray, James A. Subject Guerra, Pablo de la, 1819-1874. Subject Henley, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1810-1865. Subject Heydenfeldt, Elcan, 1821- Subject Hughes, John T. Subject Lippincott, Benjamin S. Subject McKinstry, Elisha Williams, 1825-1901. Subject Morehead, Joseph C. Subject Ogier, Isaac Stockton Keith. Subject Randolph, Edmund, 1819-1861. Subject Robinson, Henry E. Subject Tingley, George Brown, 1815-1862. Subject Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890. Subject Vermeule, Thomas L., 1814-1856. Subject Wheeler, Alfred, 1822-1903. Subject Woodworth, Selim Edwin, 1815-1871. The call number is California State library State Lib q 920.079 C1a California Rare Bk CSL The other one is: In memoriam, John Bidwell : scrapbook, 1905 / Compiled by C. C. Royce, in this one what I would like page 140of vol 1, where C.C. Royce, tells how Mrs. E. O. Crosby and her daughter carried the California Admission Day documents, back to California, and it one point carrying it in a umbrella. The call number for this one is California State library State Lib q B B58r1 California Rare Bk CSL California State library State Lib MICRO- FILM 146 California CSL California State library State Lib MICRO- FILM 146 California Non Circ CSL Thanks George --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.