Includes:

• Certificate from the Mercantile Library Association, of San Francisco, Cal. No. 8934. Dated July 21, 1873.
• Receipt from the Custom House of San Francisco, for the ship messenger of a ship going to Callao. Dated June 14, 1864. Amount due comes to $8.70. Signed by the clearance clerk, cashier of Naval office and cashier at Coll's office. Stamp that verifies payment from the office of Chass. W. Brooks & co.

Together two items.

The San Francisco Mercantile Library Association (est. 1852) was a group made to: "stimulate a generous rivalry in mental culture, by rendering it the fashion to read and converse on literary topics." - Constitution of the San Francisco Mercantile Library. The library slowly grew bigger an housed 36.000 volumes by 1874. Unfortunately the collection was ruined during the earthquake in 1906.