Scope and Content Note Collection consists of 22 autograph letters signed from John May to his wife Caroline who lived in Clarksville, Arkansas and later Scotia, Arkansas. Written during the overland expedition of the Clarksville and California Mining Association to California April-October 1849 and during his stay in California October 1849-January 1851. The letters depict the daily life of a man "gone to seek his fortune." Other miscellaneous letters and John May's commission papers in Floyd's Company of...