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Title: Autograph Letter to John Heinlen, the Gold Rush businessman who saved San Jose's Chinatown, from the firm of Ingoldsby, Halstead & Co. in New York Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Date: July 3, 1855 Description: 1½-pp. on 4-page lettersheet, addressed on p.4. 25x20 cm. (10x8"). Letter regarding the shipment of "Nineteen packages, 18 of which you had consigned from Ohio to Lee and Waller and the other one was the Trunk you left at our Store. We thought it might save you some expense by having it shipped with the other goods - and as you did not appear anxious to have it hurried, we delayed it for that purpose. The articles were shipped on board Ship "Good Hope", June 8th, and consigned to the care of Joseph Myrick & Co. at San Francisco, whose name was given to us by John Ogden, agent for the vessel in New York..." John Heinlen, to whom the letter is addressed, was a successful California business man during the Gold Rush, accumulating both wealth and property. Unlike other rich Caucasians, he willingly rented to Chinese; after a devastating 1887 fire which destroyed much of San Jose's Chinatown, he offered not only to lease land to the homeless Chinese, but also to form a partnership with Chinese merchants in building a secure new Chinatown. He has thus been called the Schindler of San Jose's Chinese community, analogous to the German industrialist who saved Jews from Nazi extermination during the Holocaust. Lot Amendments Condition: Some spotting, very good or better. Item number: 220446