The night in question : stories | Collections | The Huntington

The night in question : stories | Collections | The Huntington

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Drafts (documents) -- The Real Story, [undated]
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Chapter Nine: Birth of the C-130; 1968 Merging LAC & HAC; Sale of TWA, Merge of Douglas & Lockheed; The Real Story, An Introduction; beginning "In early November of 1973..."; and beginning "My job was to work in absolute secrecy..."
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What is to be done? : burning questions of our movement
Rare Books
A political pamphlet written in 1901 and published in 1902, in which the author argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours, and the like. To educate the working class on Marxism, the author insists that Marxists should form a political party, or vanguard, of dedicated revolutionaries in order to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers. The pamphlet, in part, precipitated the split of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party between Lenin's Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.
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The crooked hinge
Rare Books
"Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he survived the catastrophe, his ties with his family did not, and he never returned to England--not even for the funerals of his mother, his father, or, most recently, his older brother Dudley. Now, nearly twenty-five years since he was first sent away, Sir John has finally returned home to claim his inheritance. But another "Sir John" soon follows, a stranger who insists he has absolute proof of his claim to the estate. Before the case can be settled, however, one of the two men is murdered, and Dr. Gideon Fell finds himself facing one of the most challenging cases of his career. To solve it, he'll have to confront a series of bizarre and chilling phenomena, brushing up against witchcraft, magic, and a sinister automation in the process."--Back cover.
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Charles S. Sprague Co. Papers and Addenda
Manuscripts
The collection is divided into two series, Correspondence (arranged in alphabetical order, by author) and Ephemera. The Correspondence consists mainly of letters between investors and employees of the Charles S. Sprague Co. from the mid-1910s regarding their investments in mining stocks, including the Goldfield Merger. The letters indicate that many of the mining operations were not yielding profits. The Ephemera includes receipts and blank buy order forms. The addenda includes business correspondence from 1913-1916 regarding business failures before and after Harry Schwaikert's sale of the stock brokerage firm Sprague & Schwaikert to Robert Byars & Co., who refused to honor stock existing stock contracts. The majority of the correspondence is from Harry Schwaikert to Charles Sprague and includes references to Schwaikert's nervous breakdown over the business failures and his unhappiness with what he calls Sprague's "extravagance." Other letters were written by various clients and regard disputes over the non-transmittal of stock certificates purchased from Sprague & Schwaikert.
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Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Rare Books
In over a hundred dazzling watercolors, artist DeLoss McGraw unflinchingly captures the ethereal beauty and dreamlike qualities of Carroll's fantastic story. His visual trek through Wonderland is a deep poetic journey that transforms our view of the subterranean world and reveals Alice as we have never seen her before.
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Dr. North and his friends
Rare Books
A prominent physician, this author was well known in his day for introducing the "rest cure" for nervous diseases including hysteria. In this cure, patients were treated in isolation, confined to bed, and underwent prescribed diet and massage. In addition to his medical practice, this author was also a well-known writer in the genre of medical drama. This particular novel is semi-autobiographical.
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