Includes various letters, documents, postcards, and ephemera including approximately 70 letters addressed to Morton Lindley. Hand-written letters of personal correspondence between family and friends, dating around 1895, many addressed to "Mort" or Morton Lindley of San Francisco. Letters from family, friends, acquaintances, business partners, vendors, etc.

Also includes seemingly unrelated correspondence and ephemera:

• US Declaration of Intention documenting a Canadian immigrant Ralph Edwin Mason, who entered the US through New York in July 1923.
• 3 pp. Typed Letter Signed to C.B. Jennings, from Manager F.F. Barbour, on General Electric Company letterhead. Dated Aug 27, 1895.
• A few greeting cards, a few postcards.
• 3 checks for Arizona banks, dated 1880, 1902, and 1904.
• Small group of autograph letters, plus a few ephemeral items in German.

Morton Lindley was involved in the mining at Gold Hill in 1895. The same year it appears he operated Lindley & Co. in Sacramento, importers and wholesale dealers in groceries, liquors, tobaccos and cigar (a few letters from T.M. Lindley on their letterhead). The archive is mostly letters to Morton from his family, friends, lawyers, vendors, business acquaintances.