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Lydia H. Burns letter to Polly Hall
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In this letter dated sometime in June, 1854, Lydia Burns Hall writes to her sister, Polly Hall. She remains unmarried, and is concerned she may eventually marry someone who will not be kind to her. Her life as a single woman is hard, but she thinks "their is better dayes acoming." On reverse of letter is a pictorial lettersheet containing John Sutter's account of "the first discovery of the Gold" and a view of Sutter's Mill
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Unidentified girl
Manuscripts
A full-length studio portrait of an unidentified young girl resting her right forearm on the back of a simple wooden chair. The girl looks like she is about 8 to 12 years old, and is wearing a plaid patterned dress that reaches just past her knees. She is wearing dark boots that lace up about two-thirds of the way to her knees, a pearl-like necklace, and a band that holds her parted hair back.
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John Howard Payne and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley correspondence
Manuscripts
A series of letters between John Howard Payne and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Payne became infatuated with Mary Shelley after the death of her husband in 1822 and wished to marry her, but he lost interest when he realized she hoped only to use him to attract the notice of his friend, Washington Irving. John Payne never married. The letters discuss the British theater, society, and events and people in their lives.
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John Howard Payne and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley correspondence
Manuscripts
A series of letters between John Howard Payne and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Payne became infatuated with Mary Shelley after the death of her husband in 1822 and wished to marry her, but he lost interest when he realized she hoped only to use him to attract the notice of his friend, Washington Irving. John Payne never married. The letters discuss the British theater, society, and events and people in their lives.
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Girl on roof
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Photo of building with a little girl to the right, and another on the roof.
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Sex & rage : advice to young ladies eager for a good time : a novel
Rare Books
"The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles, a beach bum, part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful, semi-involved with a married man, glittering among the pretty creatures, blithely drinking Pink Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. We follow her as she rises from the mists to the discovery that she's twenty-eight, jobless, with no sense of purpose; that her wild friendships with Gilbert and Max and Etienne might not be as real as they seem. So she pries herself away from this immensely seductive place and moves to New York, to seriousness and work, to meet the agents of her new world. Sex and Rage delights in its starry, sensuous, dreamlike narrative and its spontaneous embrace of fate, and work, and of certain meetings and chances. We witness Jacaranda moving beyond the tango of sex and rage into the open challenge of a defined and more fulfilling expressive life. Sex and Rage further solidifies Eve Babitz's place as a singularly important voice in Los Angeles literature - haunting, alluring, and alive"--
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