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  Letter from Arabella Huntington to Caroline Holladay

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  A letter from you is a great pleasure. With best love to you. ____ the babies and your mother. I am always, affectionately Belle. Kiss Harriet for me I am very fond of her.""Monday December 1, My dearest Caroline I am sending you this by Edward who leaves in a day or so. We were surprised but very glad to see him. Have been in town for just two weeks & I find

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  Sun in the blood of the cat

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  "I disavow any responsibility for this volume's title and solely blame the computer. I dictated the working title 'Something photographic' and the voice-activated software typed 'Sun in the blood of the cat.' The contents, therefore, are not about feline slaughter in a tropical climate (sorry) but about a wide range of issues in photography, past and present"--Back cover.

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  James Penniman petition

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  "The humble address" of James Penniman before "the Judges of the Quarter Session, to sit by adjournment at Boston Apr. 30, 1722." The testimony was given in answer "to a Presentment for not attending the Publick Worship of God." Acknowledging that the "Presentiment is just," Penniman added that it was issued to a year ago "when I was some prejudice of our worthy minister (which ithen though I had just Reason for, tho' now I think otherwise)" and asked to "Remitt the fine the Law Justly Demands, believing that my Reformation will be more pleasing, and acceptable to your Honrs. than my Money."

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  Crypto-Catholic Shrewsbury prayer book : manuscript

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  1. f. 1r-v. Morning prayer. Lighten myne eyes o Lorde, least at any tyme I oversleepe in sinne, and least myne enemy doe say I have prevailed against him ... 2. ff. 1v-2r. Evening prayer. Allmighty and everlasting God, I render thee most heart thanckes, for that thou has vouchsafed of thy great mercy and goodnes, to preserve mee this day from all evill ... 3. ff. 2r-3v. A prayer to stirre up the minde to devotion in prayer. Allmighty and most mercifull Father, unto thee all the heavenly company of the Celestiall cytie, all the blessed orders of saved spirits do wth due reverence sing continuall glorie and everlasting praise ... 4. ff. 3v-10r. A confession of my sinnes & weaknesses wth petitions for the pardoning of the one, & strengthening of ye other. Have mercie vpon mee and spare mee good Lorde, and suffer mee not to perish in my sinne ... 5. ff. 10r-18r. Another confession wth such like petitions. Graunt me most mercifull God, fervently to desire such thinges, as may bee acceptable and pleasing unto thee, wth wisedome to serch after those, not to bee deceived in the knowledge of those, and unfainedly to accomplish the doing of those ... 6. f. 18r. A prayer desiering God to order & direct mee. Lorde God thou knowest what thing is to mee most profitable to doe, this or that, after thy will: ... 7. ff. 18v-19r. A thankesgiving for my beeing. O God thou mightest have kept mee from being at all, and (being) thou maist make mee, as if I never had been, but seeing of they wonderfull goodnes, also doost suffer mee still to bee: ... 8. ff. 19r-20r. Before the receiving of the holy Sacrament. O Benigne Jesu that wouldest suffer so many grevous paynes, yea death itself for love of mankinde, great and marveilous is they charity, give mee grace to receive, thy precious body in forme of bread this day, with purity of heart and cleanes of soule, with love, dread, and stedfast beleef. ... 9. ff. 20v-21r. After receiving the holy Sacrament. Thankes bee unto thee o holy Father God Almyghty, that thou didst vouchsaufe of thy great pity, to send thy only sonne from thy high throne into this vale of woe & miserye, ... 10. ff. 21r-22v. A prayer or thanckesgiving unto ye Holy Trinity. O Blessed Lorde God, Father, Sonne and Holy Ghost, three personnes and one God, my Lorde, my God, my maker, my redeemer, my norisher, my defender, my sweetnes, my mercy, my refuge, my strength, my victory, my joy, and my glory eternall; I laud thee, I glorifie thee, I honor thee. ... 11. ff. 22v-24v. Prayers in Sicknesse. O Sweete Jesu, I desire nor life, nor death, but they most holy will. Thee O Lorde I looke for, bee it unto mee according to thy pleasure. If thou wilt sweete Jesus that I dye, receive my soule ... 12. ff. 24v-25r. A prayer for a sick body ready to die. Have mercy and spare him o Lorde; deliver him from thine anger, from an evill death, from the danger of death; from the paines of hell, from all evill, from the power of the Devill. ... 13. ff. 25r-26r. Christ deliver thee from all torment, who was crucified for thee. Christ deliver thee from death, who hath vouchsafed to dye for thee; Christ the sonne of the living god, place thee in the garden of his paradise, which alwaies is pleasant and flourishing ...

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  61 Pimlico : the secret journal of Henry Hayler

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  "...evidently written in considerable haste while on board ship to New York, in 1874, as Hayler was fleeing England and its life-threatening dangers, as evidenced by the last journal entries ... The Hayler journal surfaced at a car-boot sale in a town called Maidenhead ... As I scanned the pages...my excitement began to build. References to photography and sex leapt off the pages. I began reading from the first page, engrossed in 'H. Hayler' and his account of his professional career as a reluctant pornographer ... Later that evening I was rereading the journal, jotting down a list of possible leads to follow and facts to verify, when it occurred to me that the back cover of one volume felt slightly thicker than the front ... It was then that I discovered the pocket in which were nine 4 x 6 inch unmounted albumen prints. All are reproduced in this volume ... Back in the USA I quickly found several items about Hayler in 19th century photographic periodicals, all of which concerned the raid by the police and the Society for the Suppression of Vice on his studio in April 1874, all of which repeated essentially the same facts. One of these news items will be found in Appendix 1 ... The journal remains the only source of information on Hayler and his erotica, except for the news accounts which first reported the raid on his abandoned studio"--From introduction.

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  Fourteen months in Canton

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  "The letters forming the subject of this small work were written during a fourteen months' residence in the city of Canton, where I enjoyed many opportunities of seeing the inner life of the Chinese, and of learning much of their daily life in their own homes. The letters were written for circulation amongst my family and a few friends who kindly expressed an interest in all I saw and did in the far-off country of China. These descriptive letters accompanied others I wrote at the same time to my family, and so they do not contain any reference to domestic matters necessary to suppress. They are therefore published in extenso. We left Liverpool in the S.S. Abyssinian on our outward journey, January 13th, 1877, and arrived at New York in fourteen days. Our voyage was rough and uninteresting, especially so perhaps to me, as I was very ill the whole time. Fourteen days spent in a cabin is very trying, even to the most patient of minds"--Introduction.

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