Authors kick off speaker series with Vallejo’s founding family history

Authors kick off speaker series with Vallejo’s founding family history

Over the course of 42 years, there were almost 200 letters exchanged between Mariano G. Vallejo, his wife, and their many children. Each letter, carved in ink and pen, would later prove to be influential in shaping the political and cultural landscape of early California. After over a decade of research for their book, “Write Long and Beautiful Letters: The Vallejos’ California Correspondence, 1846-1888,” award-winning authors Rose Marie Beebe a…