Banner of Progress (1867-1869). This was a spiritualist periodical edited by Benjamin Todd. Location unknown.

Barnes, Thomas G., Hastings College of the Law: The First Century, pp. 47-57 (San Francisco, 1978).

Braude, Ann, "News from the Spirit World: A Checklist of American Spiritualist Periodicals, 1847-1900," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 99, part 2, p. 399 (1989).

California Government Documents

Judiciary Committee; Brief on School Suffrage, authored by LDFG and submitted in the 1880 legislative session.

Constitutional Convention;Brief on School Suffrage, authored by LDFG.0

Cott, Nancy F., History of Women in the United States. Search for any reference to LDFG.

Carson, Hampton L., The Supreme Court of the United States: Its History 439 n.6 (1891).

DuBois, Ellen Carol, "Outgrowing the Compact of the Fathers: Equal Rights, Woman Suffrage, and the United State Constitution, 1820-1878," 74 Journal of American History 836 (1987).

Duniway, Abigail S., Path Breaking: an Autobiographical History of the Equal Suffrage Movement in Pacific Coast States (1914).

Elwood-Akers, Virginia, "Clara Shortridge Foltz: California's First Woman Lawyer," 28 Pacific Historian 23 (1984).

Foltz v. Hoge, 54 Cal. 28 (1878).

California Supreme Court opinion in appeal from the denial of admission to Hastings College of Law.

Frank, Dr. Louis, "The Woman Lawyers," 3 Chicago Law Times (1889).

Furay, Sally, "The Genesis of Sail'er Inn in the California Constitution," 1994 California Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook, pp. 153-57 (1994).

Letters, generally, included in other suffragists' collections, either by, to, or about LDFG. Since the Laura de Force Gordon collection at the Bancroft does not have many letter from LDFG, her letters must be scattered among the extant collections of the recipients. Specifically:

Letters from LDFG to Clara Dewick Colby, quoted in Colby, The Woman's Tribune, May 25, 1907 (Portland, OR). Clara quotes nine letters written by Laura to Clara between 1891-1906. Location unknown.

Levenson, Roger, Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857-1890 (Capra Press, 1994). Search for any reference to the papers published by LDFG or her sister Gertrude de Force Cluff.

Currently held by Stanford Law Library at Al ALN AHW.

Lodi News Sentinel (California). Apr. 9, 1907, Aug. 5-7, 1947.

Moynihan, Ruth B., Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway 85 (1983).

Narrow Gauge (Stockton, California) 1873-1874.

A short-lived newspaper for which LDFG wrote the Women's Department. Location unknown.

Pioneer'

A woman suffrage periodical published in California by Emily Pitts Stevens, beginning in 1869. Location unknown.

Polos, Nicholas, "San Diego's 'Portia of the Pacific,'" J. San Diego Hist., p. 185 (Summer 1980).

Robinson, Lelia J., "Women Lawyers in the United States," 2 Green Bag (1890).

Sacramento Bee. April 22, 1864 (deploring women's rights as the natural result of Spiritualism).

San Francisco Call. Sep. 18, 1879 (report that CSF was envious of LDFG's connections with National Leaders).

The San Francisco Examiner. Mar. 20, 1880, 1/2 (report on the woman suffrage debate, including references to Laura and Clara).

San Joaquin County Courthouse, California.

Briefs filed by Gordon are reportedly on file here. Additionally, Superior Court Judge Rollen McIlwrath reportedly possesses a collection of Gordon's papers.

San Jose Patriot.

Schwartz, Mortimer D., Susan L. Brandt & Patience Milrod, "Clara Shortridge Foltz: Pioneer in the Law," 17 Hastings Law Journal 545 (1976).

Self, Diane and Elaine Connolly, Capital Women: An Interpretive History of Women in Sacramento 1850-1920 (1994).

State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Drachman reports that materials on Gordon are on file here.

The Stockton Daily [Evening] Leader (Stockton, California). (1874-1875). This was the first daily newspaper that LDFG owned and edited. It began as a weekly, probably known as the Stockton Weekly Leader, but quickly became a daily. It may have been briefly known as the Sacramento Daily Leader, but that is not certain.

Stockton Independent (California). Apr. 6, 1907.

The Valley Review (Lodi, California). Search June 1883, for obituary and biographical information for Abram De Force (Father of LDFG). Also, search generally for any information about LDFG, her business or her family.

The Valley Review was a weekly newspaper owned and edited by Gertie De Force Cluff (sister of LDFG) from 1878-1884. Volumes 4-13 (with some missing issues) are currently on microfilm at the California State Library, California History Room.

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