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[California Gold Rush - Women - Marriage - Motherhood - Quakers - San Jose - San Francisco - Vermont] Minturn, Anna RobinsonBiblio.com

Christmas 1849 Letter to California Hotelkeeper Lloyd Minturn Describing Their Infant Son and Questioning the Gold Rush "Mania.

1849rif. BK0018Ferrisburgh Vermont 1849. Autograph letter signed "Anne R. M." to her husband Lloyd Minturn in San Francisco "Upper California." 8 pp.; approximately 1700 words. With stampless cover bearing a black "NEW-YORK / 40" datestamp of January 17 and manuscript routing "per Cherokee. Significant edge wear and central vertical crease; text generally clear and complete. An intimate Christmas letter from Anna Robinson Minturn of Ferrisburgh Vermont to her husband Lloyd then engaged in the hotel and real estate business at Pueblo San José during the California Gold Rush. Writing on the anniversary of his departure Anna describes the four-month-old son Lloyd had never seen questions whether California's speculative "mania" could last and repeatedly urges him to return home. Lloyd Minturn had traveled to California in January 1849 with David Lion Gardiner and other eastern emigrants. By November Gardiner reported that Minturn was "at Pueblo San Jose keeping a hotel and speculating in real estate."1 Anna's references to Lloyd's hotel and stables their rental and the uncertain recovery of his investment relate directly to his California business. He later appears in San Francisco as a member of the Committee of Vigilance of 1851 with his place of business on California Street and his residence at the Mansion House.2 Anna begins writing late on Christmas day imagining a future holiday spent with Lloyd "by thy quiet fire-side in Vermont-with thy wife and darling child with thee." Returning to the letter three days later she reflects on the year since his departure: "Oh how much I think about thee as the anniversary of thy departure comes round . When I think of thee my dearest ask then what a weary dreary time it seems . Our little darling improves so rapidly is so very lovely that I can hardly bear to have thee away." News that another California emigrant Dr. Stone had returned safely made Lloyd's absence still more painful. Although she understood that "the object of thy pilgrimage" at last appeared attainable Anna wondered why the management of his property could not be entrusted to an agent asking why "Mr. Ruckle" cannot "receive the rents & pay the former owner and send thee thy portion of the profits." However she immediately checks her own advice with an observation on marriage and gender: "You men know so much more how these things work than we so that it is rather labor wasted to advise much and I do hate to see a woman trying to rule her husband-don't thee" Anna feared that Lloyd might remain away sacrificing his domestic life only to lose the anticipated reward. Her skepticism extends to the Gold Rush itself: "I do hope though that the man who has taken your property will be able to pay you-that would be so bad to stay away so long-sacrificing so much & lose thy reward entirely-don't thee suppose this mania in California will end much as the land speculation did here seems to me it must. I hope thee won't get drawn in." Much of the letter is devoted to their infant son whose birth Lloyd may initially have learned of from another returning emigrant because of the "shamefully neglected" Pacific mails. At four months the boy weighed eighteen and one-quarter pounds and had "cheeks as hard as little apples." Anna encloses a lock of his hair explaining that she had kissed it before sending it. The contrast between California and the Vermont household runs throughout the letter. Anna describes the snow distant mountains sleighing baked apples and buckwheat cakes while Lloyd remains in a place known to her mainly through contradictory reports and unreliable correspondence. She cites Bayard Taylor's account of portions of California as suitable wheat country while noting that other observers claimed wheat could not be grown there at all remarking on the "contradictory accounts about California" that make it hard to "tell what to believe." Her anxiety was heightened by reports of cholera progressing toward California. She closes by asking Lloyd to protect his health and praying that he might be restored to her "in sound health both body & soul." Anna was a daughter of Rowland Thomas and Rachel Robinson of Rokeby the prominent Ferrisburgh Quaker family whose home later became known for its role in the Underground Railroad. Other letters from Anna to Lloyd during his California absence survive at the Bancroft Library and the Smithsonian.3 Overall a substantial and affecting account of the Gold Rush from the perspective of a wife left behind. 1 David Lion Gardner Letter to Juliana McLachlan Gardiner November 30 1849 David Gardiner Letters BANC MSS 2006/127 box 1.The Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley. 2 Anna Robinson Minturn Letters to Lloyd Minturn 1849-1851 Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Steamboats box 1 folder 6 J-L Archives Center National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution Washington DC. 3 Anna R. Minturn "Anna R. Minturn to Mr. Lloyd Minturn Ferrisburgh December 2 1849" California Gold Rush Letters BANC MSS C-B 547 box 5 The Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley. . unknown

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[California Gold Rush - Women - Marriage - Motherhood - Quakers - San Jose - San Francisco - Vermont] Minturn, Anna RobinsonABAA

Christmas 1849 Letter to California Hotelkeeper Lloyd Minturn Describing Their Infant Son and Questioning the Gold Rush "Mania.

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Fraser, Blair; Davies, Raymond A.; Hewelcke, Geoffrey; Keith, Ronald A.; Pengelly, Tony; Young, Scott; Holliday, Kate; Baxter, A. Beverley; Feldt, Robert H.; Roberts, C. Monte; Warner, Anne H.; Van De Water, Frederic F.; Masson, HalMareMagnum

Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 15 November 1945, Vol. 58, No. 22: Flt.-Lieut. Tony Pengelly and Real Great Escape from Stalag Luft III (Part 2 of 2)

1945Features: X for Escape - Photo-illustrated article (part 2 of 2) by Flt.-Lieut. Tony Pengelly describes the dramatic Great Escape from Luft Stalag III involving 83 prisoners, 50 of whom were later shot - basis for the classic WWII film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen; Shakedown - Political favours and liquor licences; Life with Ivan - How does the average Russian live?; Marriages Mended - Domestic Relations Judge H.S. Mott has a 90% success rate; The Mine That Shook the World - A vivid photo-illustrated report on Eldorado, the super-secret mine in the Arctic which produces the raw material for atomic bombs; King Size Tenor - Lauritz Melchior, mighty tenor of the "Met"; Russia - A Split Personality; Backstage Ottawa - the taxpayer wins a battle; Big Business Farmer - George Wesley of Wrentham, Alberta, farms 16,000 acres in Alberta and grows enough wheat to feed a small city; The Truth About Epilepsy - Robert H. Feldt, M.D., has made immense strides toward taming this dreaded brain disease; Man of Many Voices - Meet Mercer (One-Man Cast) McLeod, first radio actor to sell a Canadian-recorded program for U.S. broadcasting; If You Should Get Venison - cooking tips; and more. Short Stories: World Premiere; Uncle Alfred; For These Thy Gifts. Nice ad for: C-I-L; Imperial Oil (How an oil well works); Good Year (with color illustration of firemen and forest fire); Snyder's Furniture; G.E. Electric Blankets (& Electric Flying Suits); Aunt Jemima Pancakes; Westinghouse in the electrical age 1920-1945; Life Savers (nice one-page color ad); Chase & Sanborn - featuring Charlie McCarthy in colour; Waterman's Taperite pen; Once-page colour-illustrated ad by Carling's honouring Jack Miner of Kingsville, Ontario; T.S. Simms "Pure Badger" shaving brushes; Lovely 1946 Ford (dark red) ad inside back cover; B.C. Apples ad on back cover features charming colour illustration of young lass holding basket of fruit. 72 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this historic vintage issue. Book

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[Honorable Prostitution] [Economics of Marriage] [Women's Education] [Broadside Ballad]ABAA

The Dandy Wife

1828rif. 5421London: T. Birt 1828. First edition. Single sheet measuring 250 x 185mm and printed in two columns to recto. Some edgewear to margins not affecting text; a bit of foxing and toning largely confined to margins. A scarce and delicate survivor OCLC documents only one example at the National Library of Scotland. The present is the only example on the market. The Dandy Wife is narrated by a man who aimed "to choose me out a loving wife" at the age of twenty-one but whose experience becomes a warning to "all young men of high renown": "If you want a tidy wife Beware of a boarding school." What unfolds is a satire of how the marriage economy is affected when women have access to knowledge -- intellectual and physical -- and how by meeting a man's superficial expectations a woman can fulfill her own more pressing needs. Thinking that a boarding school girl will have the innocence submissiveness and domestic skill he desires the narrator selects a wife from among their ranks. Thinking only of what he can obtain from such a bargain he is unprepared for what an educated woman brings into his house. The Dandy Wife he describes understands the commodity value of her own beauty and material adornment and that these are her key means for acquiring wealth of her own. "She takes one-half of what I earn In drinking gin and tea; Besides such frills and furbelows My Dandy Wife does wear.Her sleeves upon her dandy gown Oh! Lack they're such a size You'd think they were two balloons that in the air would rise." Aside from staying on par with fashion trends her clothing assists her in avoiding domestic tasks she abhors. She refuses to do laundry more than monthly and through ridiculous cooking failures she rapidly establishes that the kitchen is not a showcase for her skillset. Accustomed to a life of learning she is not trained to conduct domestic business. By the ballad's end it becomes clear that the Dandy Wife was savvier in managing a marriage than her husband was. For not only does her superior intellect help her carve out a more satisfying role but she also has physical knowledge that predates him: "The day that I was married I thought I'd got a charming maid But I was much deceived.For scarce five months we'd married been When she had a darling son. T. Birt unknown books

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[Erotic Satire] [Widows and Sexuality] [Marriage and Economics]ABAA

The Triumph of Sentiment - The Prospect of Happiness - or a Picture for Dotards

1800rif. 5629London: S. W. Fores 1800. First edition. Illustrated hand-colored broadside measuring 270 x 400mm and printed to verso only. Faint offsetting to recto and faint traces of mounting to corners. In all a Fine example of this visual satire commenting on the phenomenon of younger men seeking marriage with elderly widows for their own financial gain -- and the cultural anxiety surrounding the marital sexuality of such brides. Unrecorded in ESTC and OCLC we have located two examples of the present work at the British Museum and Yale. The present broadside draws together a wide matrix of debates and social anxieties surrounding the economic and sexual status of widows and the financial motivations for marriage among second sons and men of the middle class. Though women were more frequently forced into experiencing marriage as a form of 'honorable prostitution' in which their physical desirability served as their key for accessing wealth and stability under coverture it was increasingly acknowledged that large swaths of young men also suffered under this system. And while widows could escape the system -- shifting from the disempowered femme covert to the more legally independent femme sole on their husbands' deaths -- there was both a social fantasy of reinserting them into the marriage market as a means for regaining control over their money and bodies as well as a social anxiety about their ability to corrupt through the range of knowledge and authority they gained through previous marital experience. Here a young man walks his aging crone down the aisle. Ornately clad and expressing her anticipation for "the comforts of matrimony" she is ridiculed by the ministers at the pulpit who posit that if "matrimony was first ordained.for a remedy against fornication" then "the remedy will be worse than the disease" in this instance. Untroubled the young groom focuses on the land deeds bank notes and jewelry accounts which stuff his pockets -- assets which will legally become his after the ceremony and which serve as his marital comforts. Meanwhile two young women observe from the sidelines one of them planning her future with the groom after his aging bride's eventual demise. "Those jewels will look better on me than on the last owner" she notes as her companion whispers hopefully "you'll let me take a morning ride with you sometimes." A visual commentary on the financial and social issues surrounding marriage under coverture which Daniel Defoe would deride as "matrimonial whoredom." British Museum 1935.0522.8.109. Yale Center for British Art B1974.12.328. S. W. Fores unknown books

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