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Lydia H. Burns letter to Polly Hall

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    Lydia H. Burns letter to Polly Burns Hall

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    Lydia Burns writes to her sister Polly of her stay in Placerville, California, where she is working in "a publick house." With letterhead engraving of a view of Placerville, California.

    mssHM 3206

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    Sex and the single girl

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    This guide torpedoes one of the most absurd myths of our time: that every girl must be married. Instead, it tells the unmarried girl how to be irresistily, irrepressibly, confidently, enviably single. Hundreds of practical suggestions are written with canor by a woman who was herself single for thirty-seven years. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the haunts of men and told how to flush them out. Not for the purpose of getting married but of being contentedly single until she meets a man she wants to marry -- and who wants to marry her.

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    Correspondence, Hall, Julia to Andrew W. Hall, 1852-Aug.-1863, Sep

    Manuscripts

    The Manuscripts series is arranged chronologically and consists of diaries kept by Julia M. Wilde Hall from 1855-1859. In the diaries, Hall talks about her day-to-day activities in Sacramento, Ca. It appears that she lived in a hotel called the Orleans Hotel. She talks about household chores, church, dinner parties, the weather, and her husband Andrew. This series also includes a family records notebook which traces the ancestors of Julia's family back to 1605 in England. The notebook includes newspaper clippings and obituaries relating to the deaths of Martha C. Hall, John W. Hall, and Andrew W. Hall. Lastly, there is a eulogy of Rev. John Wilde, the father of Julia, which is about 34 pages long.

    mssHM 71750-71877

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    Manuscripts and Correspondence, Adams – Hall, Julia to Andrew W. Hall, 1852, May

    Manuscripts

    The Manuscripts series is arranged chronologically and consists of diaries kept by Julia M. Wilde Hall from 1855-1859. In the diaries, Hall talks about her day-to-day activities in Sacramento, Ca. It appears that she lived in a hotel called the Orleans Hotel. She talks about household chores, church, dinner parties, the weather, and her husband Andrew. This series also includes a family records notebook which traces the ancestors of Julia's family back to 1605 in England. The notebook includes newspaper clippings and obituaries relating to the deaths of Martha C. Hall, John W. Hall, and Andrew W. Hall. Lastly, there is a eulogy of Rev. John Wilde, the father of Julia, which is about 34 pages long.

    mssHM 71750-71877

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    J. H. Randolph letter to William Bostwick

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    Letter by planter J. H. Randolph to cotton merchant William Bostwick about the possible sale of a slave woman named Elizabeth. "If you desire to buy her, you should have her -- She is very likely in her prime -- The price will be $550."

    mssHM 82542

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    Correspondence, Hall, Julia, 1863, Oct-before 1872 – Wilde and Ephemera

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    The Manuscripts series is arranged chronologically and consists of diaries kept by Julia M. Wilde Hall from 1855-1859. In the diaries, Hall talks about her day-to-day activities in Sacramento, Ca. It appears that she lived in a hotel called the Orleans Hotel. She talks about household chores, church, dinner parties, the weather, and her husband Andrew. This series also includes a family records notebook which traces the ancestors of Julia's family back to 1605 in England. The notebook includes newspaper clippings and obituaries relating to the deaths of Martha C. Hall, John W. Hall, and Andrew W. Hall. Lastly, there is a eulogy of Rev. John Wilde, the father of Julia, which is about 34 pages long.

    mssHM 71750-71877