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The Journal of San Diego History
Fall 1994, Volume 40, Number 4
Contents of This Issue

Letters Written from San Diego County, 1879-1880
by Rufus Morgan, North Carolina Apiarist and Photographer

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San Diego County map  
Page 142.
San Diego County, California, ca. 1880.


Rufus Morgan  
Page 144.
Rufus Morgan, ca. 1870.


Mary Clark Morgan  
Page 145.
Mary Clark Morgan, ca. 1872.


John Stewart Harbison  
Page 149.
Pioneer apiarist John Stewart Harbison (1826-1912).


simplicity hive  
Page 150.
A. I. Root's "simplicity hive."
From Root, The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, 1929.


Rufus Morgan's first letter to his wife  
Page 153.
Rufus Morgan's first letter written to his wife from the Glen Oak apiary.


Oak Glen apiary  
Page 155.
The Oak Glen apiary in a photograph taken six years after Morgan's death.


Ephraim W. Morse  
Page 157.
Ephraim W. Morse (1823-1906).


Rufus Morgan's last letter to his wife  
Page 173.
Rufus Morgan's last letter to his wife, written the day before his death.


Letter to Mary Morgan from Ephraim Morse  
Page 174.
[Letter to Mary Morgan from Ephraim Morse, April 7th, 1880]



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