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Maria F. Watts letter to "Mrs. Foster,"
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The first letter was written by Mary-Cécile Logé, a French book translator. In the letter she declines to translate White fang due to the similarity of its "most important scenes" to those in The call of the wild. She states that Paris editors agree with her and that the book would have to be condensed to "one-third of its actual length" to be published in French. She sends back eight guineas to be forwarded to London. She also inquires after the rights to translate a new Robert Hitchens novel. In English (1908, May 13, HM 81227).
mssHM 81227
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Maria F. Noatts letters to Alfred G. Gray
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These two San Francisco letters from Maria F. Noatts to her friend, Alfred G. Gray, dated July 2, 1852 and July 28, 1853, describe her work running a boardinghouse and convey news of gold mining and miners in the city of Columbia, California
mssHM 56915-56916
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Lenora E. Phillips Foster reminiscences
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In this volume, Foster tells her life story beginning with her birth and childhood in Corydon, Iowa. She gives many details such as the death of two of her siblings within a month of each other in 1864, her older brother leaving to go fight in the Civil War, learning music as a child, her marriage to Edward E. Foster in 1875, etc. Throughout the volume are poems, sketches and drawings done by Foster. In the front of the volume is a photograph of Foster taken in 1930.
mssHM 82441
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Maria Benedicta Saez will
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The will was written in Los Angeles, California on December 10, 1855; it is written in Spanish. In it, Saez states her age, her husband and children. She states that she wants to be buried at the Catholic Cemetery in Los Angeles; her house is to be given to her oldest son with some land going to her daughter Maria del Rosario; and the profits from her garden should be distributed amongst her children. With the manuscript is a typed English translation.
mssHM 75100
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Maria Fitzherbert letter to William Porden
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An autograph, signed letter addressed to "Sir" and dated on the verso, "1803 dec 12;" on the top of the page, in pencil in another hand, is written "To Wm Porden." The letter only briefly mentions the Prince of Wales and is mainly about the installation, placement and use of a stove in a house that is being built. William Porden was the architect who designed Steine House in Brighton, England, for Fitzherbert; she lived there from 1804 until her death in 1837. The letter was mounted on board by a previous owner.
mssHM 84133
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Nathan H. Rappaport letters to Ruth Proskauer Smith
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Two autograph letters written by Dr. Nathan H. Rappaport to Ruth Proskauer Smith, an American advocate for reproductive rights. The letters were written just after his release from prison and detail Dr. Rappaport's work and his vow to continue regardless of possible future incarceration; he also advises how to advocate and thanks her for the literature Mrs. Smith has sent him.
mssHM 84140