Companions of Minds and Books: H.H. and Matilda Bancroft in Their Literary Industries
The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United StatesKim Bancroft will discuss the legacy of her great-great-grandparents, H.H. Bancroft, historian of the West and founder of The Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley, and his second wife, Matilda Bancroft, a writer and historian in her own right. After marrying H.H. in 1859, Emily wrote voluminous letters from San Francisco to her family in Buffalo […]