Title: Future official surveyor of Alcatraz and San Francisco sails for California, 1850 letter Author: Place: Publisher: Date: Description: Charles J. Chubb. Autograph Letter Signed. Washington, D.C., Oct. 5, 1850. To Guy Phelps, [Connecticut Life Insurance Co], Hartford, Conn. 1 pg.+address leaf. Asking for a life insurance permit (for California travel) for R.D.Cutts who “is ordered to the Pacific via the Isthmus to survey San Francisco Bay and the coast. He remains in his vessel and will not reside in California. He hopes to obtain the permit at regular sea risks if possible...taking the risk of life from the time of reaching Chagres with 14 days after leaving Panama...” Richard D. Cutts, who used his first initials to distinguish himself from his late father and namesake (an influential Washingtonian who had married President Madison’s sister-in-law) had years of experience surveying Chesapeake Bay for the US Coastal Survey when he was sent to California to begin official surveys of the new state. Immediately on arrival in December, he surveyed Alcatraz Island (“a large rock” with a lighthouse, he reported to Washignton). Months later, he climbed to the top of Mount Diablo to place a marker which would eventually be used as starting point for surveys of all property in northern California. In the years to follow, he would produced the first official survey of Monterey Bay and of the Columbia River. But he best remembered for his work which resulted in the famous 1853 Coast Survey map of San Francisco. Obviously, his plans not to “reside” in California – or even to leave the ship in San Francisco Bay - had come to nought. Lot Amendments Condition: very good Item number: 247557
Title: Future official surveyor of Alcatraz and San Francisco sails for California, 1850 letter Author: Place: Publisher: Date: Description: Charles J. Chubb. Autograph Letter Signed. Washington, D.C., Oct. 5, 1850. To Guy Phelps, [Connecticut Life Insurance Co], Hartford, Conn. 1 pg.+address leaf. Asking for a life insurance permit (for California travel) for R.D.Cutts who “is ordered to the Pacific via the Isthmus to survey San Francisco Bay and the coast. He remains in his vessel and will not reside in California. He hopes to obtain the permit at regular sea risks if possible...taking the risk of life from the time of reaching Chagres with 14 days after leaving Panama...” Richard D. Cutts, who used his first initials to distinguish himself from his late father and namesake (an influential Washingtonian who had married President Madison’s sister-in-law) had years of experience surveying Chesapeake Bay for the US Coastal Survey when he was sent to California to begin official surveys of the new state. Immediately on arrival in December, he surveyed Alcatraz Island (“a large rock” with a lighthouse, he reported to Washignton). Months later, he climbed to the top of Mount Diablo to place a marker which would eventually be used as starting point for surveys of all property in northern California. In the years to follow, he would produced the first official survey of Monterey Bay and of the Columbia River. But he best remembered for his work which resulted in the famous 1853 Coast Survey map of San Francisco. Obviously, his plans not to “reside” in California – or even to leave the ship in San Francisco Bay - had come to nought. Lot Amendments Condition: very good Item number: 247557
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