Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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
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A drawing room comedy featuring Richard Vaisey, an English expert on Russian literature, who falls for a Russian poetess. He is reluctant to leave his wife because she has lots of money and when he finally takes the plunge he discovers, to his regret, she also has lots of imagination--for revenge.
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In this letter to his wife, Kimball Dimmick writes that he is well, despite his loneliness, and he has just gotten over an illness. He also writes of an event where an Indian chief demanded that a dead Indian and his Indian murderer be turned over to them, and when both were given to his care, he and his people dug a grave, threw in both the murderer and his victim, and buried both together, the murderer being alive while they did so.
mssHM 4197
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Mr. Engert's new assignment in Peking where he will be joined by his wife Sara and the children after a few months. He relates the many historical events that he has experiences in the first months since his arrival: the bombing of Peking, the dramatic meeting in Nanking between the Manchurian warlord and President Chiang Kai-shek. He saw a good deal of Professor Elliot Smith when he was in China in connection with the "Peking Skull."
mssAdams
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Upon returning to the States he was ordered to Washington. As he was passing through New York he renewed the acquaintance of a woman he had met three years before and they are to be married.. Mr. Engert has just been made First Secretary of Embassy and Assistant to the Chief of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department.
mssAdams
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Conness informs Wilson that he has moved, and will be happy to host Wilson and his wife when they have time to visit.
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Mr. Winn informs Mr. Covilland that he has purchased a house in Sacramento and has rented it in Mr. Covilland's interest. A second house is to be built shortly, and there is a tenant already in mind.
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