Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Song of the scythe
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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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Rare Books
607457
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Manuscripts
Papers of Elizabeth Montagu, chiefly letters, with some manuscripts. The papers deal with literary affairs, personalities, and gossip, including references to current books and plays; social and everyday life of Elizabeth Montagu at her homes at Sandleford Priory, London, Bath, and Turnbridge Wells; her travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sandleford, Spa (1763), Paris (1776), and Scotland (1766 and 1770); current political events, including the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the Seven Years War, the coronation of George III, the John Wilkes affair, and the trial of Warren Hastings; coal mines and mining in Northumberland.
MO 719
Visual Materials
Image of a view of the building interior of H.C. Redington & Company, a grain and grass scythe manufacturer located in Littleton, New Hampshire; blacksmiths, furnaces, and other machinery visible throughout space; two children watch a pair of men working at an anvil in foreground.
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![Conway, Henry Seymour. To Mrs. Montagu, with two Garden swords to be us'd as Scythes: [a poem of 8 lines]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN47RL8NW%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)