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Correspondence, 3 May 1906, from Georgia Merlinjones

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Title	Correspondence, 3 May 1906, from Georgia Merlinjones
Type of object	Correspondence
Source	Merlinjones, Georgia
Date created	May 3, 1906
Description	Letter from Georgia Merlinjones to her aunt and uncle, Hulda and Leopold Justi (who are brother and sister), in Glen Ellen, California. She writes from Oakland, California describing the effects of the 1906 earthquake on the cities of Oakland and San Francisco, including rent rates, scavaging, and rumors. She also offers marriage advice to her bachelor uncle.
Subject	Earthquake, 1906 Earthquake damage Merlinjones, Georgia
City	San Francisco, California Oakland, California
Region	San Francisco County (California) Alameda County (California)
Transcript	615 East 18th Street, May 3, 1906 Oakland, California My dear Uncle ; Last [Thursday] when I returned home from the city I received your letter, but I think that you are mistaken, because I answered your other letter. Uncle Leo mama wants you to come down and go over to see the city, you can not [imagine] how it looks. And be sure and bring that thing which takes pictures. It makes you feel badly to see the city every thing is gone. A few of the buildings still stand but they are nothing but shells. We walked all over and got some souvenirs. Mama also wants you to bring a basket down (without anything in it but a nightgown) so you can take a lot of hinges home. We picked up about a dozen, but we could have picked up more. Mama said that it will pay you to come down. But come soon before they pull down all the walls. To look at the city you would think that it is impossible for them to rebuild it. I hardly think that they will. We saw a man open his safe and everything in it was burned. We felt some of the safes and they were still hot. The fire still burns in many places, yet. Uncle Leo please come down, before they start in cleaning the things away. The sooner you come the better it will be. Write before you come so we will not have some other plan in our heads. The rents are going up like fire. One woman wants ten dollars a week for only two unfurnished rooms, and thirty dollars for a house of five rooms and no water. I received a letter from papa to-day and he said that the first report was that all on the pacific coast was wiped out of existence. He said that the people were all frantic out there, because they could not get a word from San Francisco. Where ever you go in the city you can smell something dead. Bring Auntie, too, The ranch will not run away. Uncle Leo I advise you if you are going to get married, marry some girl that you do not have to marry the whole family. Miss Ball is alright. If you can not get a girl that has not a father, mother, brother, or sisters, go to some orphan home, but don't have any thing to do with any girl under twenty. You do not know how bad they are and what they do say. The case in Sonoma is enough for any man. Do you get any papers yet? The Examiner is down on the ground. I think I will close because if I get this letter in the box before eight you will get it to-morrow. Good-bye your loving niece Georgie M. Merlinjones. Please write soon. Do you know anything about Miss. B. Smith? Envelope: Mr. Leopold Justi, Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California Postmark: Oakland, Cal. May 3 12 p.m. 1906 Verso: Postmark: Glen Ellen Cal. May 4 190[6] 6 p.m.
Collection	Leopold Justi Papers
Repository	Sonoma State University Library Rohnert Park, California
File name	EQ_JU_004
Digital reproduction	Original photograph scanned at 360 dpi-Displayed in jpeg format at 75 dpi
Related resources	Earthquakes (Gaye LeBaron Collection file folder); Earthquake reconstruction (Gaye LeBaron Collection file folder); Hotz Earthquake Collection; Sonoma County Preservation Projects
Copyright	Copyright Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/about/policies.php
Date digitized	2006

Title	Correspondence, 3 May 1906, from Georgia Merlinjones, page 1
Transcript	615 East 18th Street, May 3, 1906 Oakland, California My dear Uncle ; Last [Thursday] when I returned home from the city I received your letter, but I think that you are mistaken, because I answered your other letter. Uncle Leo mama wants you to come down and go over to see the city, you can not [imagine] how it looks. And be sure and bring that thing which takes pictures. It makes you feel badly to see the city every thing is gone. A few of the buildings still stand but they are nothing but shells. We walked all over and got some souvenirs. Mama also wants you to bring a basket down (without anything in it but a nightgown) so you
Collection	Leopold Justi Papers
Repository	Sonoma State University Library Rohnert Park, California
Copyright	Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/about/copyright.html#own

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