Years ago (around 1979) I read a very early history on Mission San Jose in your rare books collection. Do you know the exact title?

I think this may be the book you are remembering:

The history of Mission San Jose, California, 1797-1835 / by Francis Florence McCarthy; with an epilogue covering the period from 1835 to 1855 by Raymund F. Wood.
Author:McCarthy, Francis Florence, 1884-1948.
Publisher:Fremont, CA: Committee for the Restoration of the Mission San Jose, 1977, c1958
Description:Bicentennial ed.
285 p. illus.

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