Uniek swain biography of william

The J.

S. Holliday Research Collection on the William Swain Family consists of papers relating to the Swain family, which Holliday gathered in the course of his research for The World Rushed In. The collection is housed in eight boxes and is organized into two series: Swain Family Papers and J.

S. Holliday Research Files.

Series I, Swain Family Papers, , boxes , is organized into five subseries: Correspondence, Writings, Documents and Financial Papers, Other Papers, and Photographs. The correspondence includes 27 letters to forty-niner William Swain from his wife Sabrina and brother George, dated April 15, to September 8, Also included are "A Forty Niner," William's dictated recollections, and his will, made out before leaving for California.

Other family papers include William's father Isaac's account books, letters