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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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Adirondack stories
Rare Books
"Several of the characters in these stories, as well as much of the material and nearly all the locales, were come by in the summer of 1931 during a stay in the Adirondack Mountains in the company of Nathanael West. For some while prior, he'd been trying to complete the revision of his second book, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' and I'd been trying to write 'The Water Wheel,' my first. ... On our return to New York in September, West invited me to put up at the Sutton--as a non-paying guest, of course--and of course I accepted. I remained there for the better part of six months, during which time the first five of these stories were written. Under my then name, Julian L. Shapiro, they were published in 1932, three of them in Pagany and two in Contact, and apart from a few descriptive pieces that had appeared in the Paris vanguard magazines Tambour and The New Review, they're my earliest printed work. ... I have taken another name since those days, but I've not seen fit to tamper with the stories. ... I have changed after forty-five years, I suppose ... but the stories have not been touched"--From foreword, dated 6 April 1976.
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Photojournalisms
Rare Books
"As a photojournalist who travels extensively around the world, home for me has always been a shifting term, with shifting people and shifting objects vying for my attention. Upon meeting Julie Winokur in 1992, that dynamic was forever altered. When we married in 1994, a pattern of recording journals addressed to Julie was already firmly established. In keeping with the changing times, what began as paper journals was replaced with daily emails by 2000. Encompassing nearly 20 years, this book is a selection of these journal entries from various locations around the world written for my wife. They reflect my deep-seated desire, more like need, to connect to Julie and let her know with some urgency what I had just seen, felt, heard and sometimes recorded in images ... The very act of creating this book touches upon my desire to reach out to others and to report on issues throughout the world ... The depth of my feelings, touched so deeply and so often by the realities I witness, are the testimony I want this collection to reveal"--From introduction by author.
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Recollections of Sixty Years of Engineering by John H. Quinton
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This typewritten memoir by Los Angeles engineer, John Henry Quinton, begins with his childhood in Enniskillen, Ireland. He continues with his decision to find work in America as an engineer after seeing an advertisement in a book for the Central Pacific Railroad Company. After a rough voyage at sea on board the steamship Circassian, he landed in San Francisco, California with $40 in his pockets in 1873. In California, Quinton writes about various ventures, from ill-conceived irrigation projects to the inception of a colony called the "California Colony," which was the foundation for the city of Fresno. At one point in the memoir, Quinton interjects with a note about his temperament. "I have already stated in these pages that I was endowed with a hasty temper as a boy, and showed it so frequently that my mother, who was a very wise woman, warned me that it would sometimes get me into serious trouble. Fortunately as I grew older I learned to retrain my temper, and although it came near getting me into serious trouble several times it never really got me into serious trouble" (p. 202). He concludes the memoir with a few kind words about Frederick Haynes Newell, the First Director of the United States Reclamation Project, and taking up work since he did in 1908.
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John Burroughs letters to "Dear Sir,"
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John Burroughs wrote this letter from West Park, New York. It reads: "Yours of the 20th was duly read. I am writing very little these days, and am cautious about binding myself by promises. But if I should chance to have anything that would be suitable for your columns I will let you have it. Very sincerely John Burroughs."
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Charles Darwin letter to C.W. Stoddard
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A full transcription of the letter follows: "Dear Sir, I am obliged for your extremely courteous letter. It is of course a great satisfaction to me to hear that my work has in any way interested an interested and observing person. I am little surprised at what you say about certain plants not fruiting or flowering in the Sandwich Islands; though this is very common in hotter countries. There is nothing I shd enjoy so much as to visit California, but I am growing old & my health is weak. With my best thanks, I beg leave to remain Dear Sir Yours faithfully, Ch. Darwin. P.S. I am obliged for your enclosures." The letter, written from Beckenham, Kent, is dated May 5; no year is given. The letter is in reply to one sent by Charles Warren Stoddard on 11 April 1870 (see the Darwin Correspondence Project).
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