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Trial at Green Street Courthouse : a historical play in ten scenes
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Letters addressed to Frances Power Cobbe cover women's suffrage and rights; antivivisection, her social work in Bristol, and her moral and religious writings; comments on her books and articles. Correspondents include Mary Carpenter, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Charles Darwin, Earl of Shaftesbury, James Anthony Froude, Keshub Chunder Sen, James Martineau, Theodore Parker, Felix Pecaut, and others. Bray, Caroline (Hennell). 1895, May 21. Re: George Eliot. Cobbe, Charles, Abp. of Dublin. To his son, Charles Cobbe. 1750, Mar. 17. Letter of advice on going abroad. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. 1875, May 7. Re: vivisection. Froude, James Anthony. Interesting series of letters. Galton, Sir Francis. 1877, Aug. 27. Re: motives for murder. Kesavachandra Sena. 1878, Apr. 26. Re: the marriage of his young daughter. Montefiore, Claude G. 1882, Dec. 4. On inter-racial marriage with Jews. Parker, Theodore. 1848, May 5. On religion. Russell, John, styled Viscount Amberly. 1874, Nov. 10 & 25. Letter about Frances Power Cobbe's essay on Mill. Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Balfour). 1890, Jan. 10. On premonitions, telepathy, and hallucinations. Spencer, Herbert. 1872. Criticism of Miss Cobbe's Darwinism in Morals. Stevenson, Robert Louis. 1884, Mar. 9. Re: his friendliness toward dogs and his views on vivisection. Amos, Sheldon (3 pieces, 1879-83) Bonheur, Rosa (4 pieces, 1869-98) Boyle, Eleanor Vere (Gordon) ((3 pieces, c.1890?) Brown, Edward Harold, Bp. of Winchester (8 pieces, 1878-89) Butler, Frances Anne (Kemble) (5 pieces, c. 1865-90) Carpenter, Mary (23 pieces, 1858-77) Carpenter, William Benjamin (4 pieces, 1867-73) Channing, William Henry (5 pieces, 1860-83) Colenso, John William, Bp. of Natal (11 pieces, 1863-74) Collins, William Wilkie (3 pieces, 1882-83) Cooper, Anthony Ashley (7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 238 pieces, 1877-85) Darwin, Charles Robert (5 pieces, c.1870-75) Darwin, Emma (Wedgewood) (4 pieces, c.1870-90) Eastlake, Elizabeth (Rigby) , Lady (3 pieces, 1885-89) Edwards, Amelia Ann Blandford (3 pieces, 1888-89) Fawcett, Millicent (Garrett) (3 pieces, c.1885-90) Froude, James Anthony (34 pieces, 1861-92) Greg, William Rathbone (3 pieces, c.1870-80) Herbert, George Robert Charles (13th Earl of Pembroke, 4 pieces, 1888) Hoare, John N (4 pieces, 1894) How, William Walsham, Bp. of Wakefield (5 pieces, 1889-94) Hutton, Richard Holt (8 pieces, 1875-92) James, Henry (3 pieces, 1893) Jowett, Benjamin (4 pieces, 1860-65) Kesavachandra Sena (14 pieces, 1863-78) Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (5 pieces, 1865-90) Lilly, William Samuel (3 pieces, 1885-86) Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal (5 pieces, 1882-89) Martineau, James (26 pieces, 1865-97) Morley, John (1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, 5 pieces, 1880) Morris, Sir Lewis (3 pieces, 1881-c.1887) Newman, Francis William (3 pieces, 1859-76) Paget Walpurga Ehrengarde... (4 pieces, 1891) Parker, Theodore (17 pieces, 1848-60) Pécaut, Félix (12 pieces, 1863-71) Pécaut, J Elie (5 pieces, 1898) Ponsonby, Sir Henry Frederick (4 pieces, 1884-87) Rhys, Sir John (3 pieces, 1891-93) Ritchie, Anne Isabella ... (3 pieces, c.1875-82) Roberts, William Page (3 pieces, 1886-87) Spencer, Herbert (5 pieces, 1866-c.1875) Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn (10 pieces, 1871-79) Taylor, Helen (3 pieces, 1868-74) Taylor, Sir Henry (3 pieces, 1879-82) Tennyson, Hallam (2d Baron Tennyson, 4 pieces, 1882-94) Tyndall, John (4 pieces, 1865-c.1875) Upton, Charles Barnes (3 pieces, 1883-86) Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) (10 pieces, 1888-94) Watson, Sir William (3 pieces, c.1890-1900) Webster, Augusta (3 pieces, 1878-81) Welldon, James Edward Cowell (4 pieces, 1886-92) Wilberforce, Albert Basil Orme (7 pieces, c.1890-92)
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