Includes:

• "To the Hon. Committee on Public Lands, Hopuse of Representatives," from Levi Whitney of Solano County, decrying usurpation of lands in California by the state government. 6 pp. 1866.
• Yerba Buena: Brief. 5 pp. Presents a chronology of settlement and use. c.1867.
• "Claim to the Island of Yerba Buena" addressed to the Hon. the Congress of the United States. 34 pp. c.1869.
• Single column addressed "To the Editor of the Chronicle" from Caleb T. Fay, San Francisco Commissioner on Goat Island Hill, dated Washington, April 30, 1872.
• Statement and Argument of D.C. McRuer, in behalf of the Citizens of San Francisco, against the "Goat Island Bill," before the Committee on Military Affairs of the United States Senate... 46 pp. Printed wrappers. 1873.

Together, 5 items. Most unbound.

Scarce material relating to the island in San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, now pierced by a tunnel connecting the two branches of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.