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Manuscripts
Letter from Samuel Hopkins Willey to a Miss Lord, sent from San Francisco. In the hastily written letter Willey writes that he has put up "articles of my soliciting" and that he has mislaid a prospectus and would like to be sent another copy. He also writes that "it is very hard for me in the press of care to do work for this school."
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Intense letter about gynecology and women's medical issues, possibly including abortion, from a Miss Dodge in New York City to a Mr. Maltbie. Dodge's letter concerns her friend (Maltbie's female cousin) who is "in a state of despondency & distress". It appears that this cousin, Miss Boynton, is the victim of an inept obstetrician. Miss Dodge appeals to Maltbie to get proper medical car for Boynton. In a post-postscript, the letter contains a reference to gynecologist Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet (1828-1919), co-founder of the Women's Hospital of New York.
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Rare Books
This is the fourth installment in the delicious 'Mapp & Lucia' series, and a hilarious study of 1930's manners and the pecking order in the fictional English village of Tilling. Now a widow, Lucia moves to the village of Tilling where she meets a rival for her social dominance, the clever Miss Mapp.
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Visual Materials
Cabinet card portrait of a woman with photographer's imprint: Bijou Studio, Los Angeles. Handwritten inscription on back of photograph: "Miss Dora Warner, University Place / To Her Friend, Mrs? Gluck."
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Rare Books
In this tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era England To inherit her family fortune, Miss Caroline Ross must marry before her twenty-fifth birthday. But she has found only two breeds of husband: violent drunks and irresponsible dandies. To evade wedded agony, she chooses a spouse not long for this world, a convicted murderer with just a few hours left until his date with the hangman. But clever, cold-hearted Caroline does not yet realize it is her neck around which the noose is tightening and that she risks facing a life sentence far grimmer than one at Newgate jail.
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In this letter, which was written on board the HMS Assistance while at Woolwich, Belcher is thanking Miss Russell for her "handsome contritubtion to the sledge parties about to seek for traces of Sir John Franklin." The letter was written in third person.
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