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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
A father wishes to marry his daughter to the most educated man he can find, but she is in love with another. The two potential lovers square off, and the daughter's preferred husband wins over her father by speaking fake Greek.
mssLA 475
Manuscripts
The Moorish Almeyda has been hostage to the King of Castile and loves his son. She is returned as heir to Granada on her father's death and she re-joins the Moors.
mssLA 1113
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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
mssHM 3207
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Don Henry, who is contracted to his love Antonia, escapes after killing his antagonist. Don Grasper, a 'greybeard' forges a letter to Antonia reporting Don Henrys death and plans to marry her himself. Contains Prologue and Epilogue.
mssLA 748
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Based on the known tale on Inkle and Yarico. Inkle, an English trader, finds himself shipwrecked in the West Indies. He only survives after help from an Indian women name Yarico and the fall in love. However, when he returns to civilization he plans to sell her into slavery, and marry another woman to gain social standing.
mssLA 782
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Rare Books
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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