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Samuel Diamond's Literary Favorites
Won By Waiting
and (Inside Story) House Party |
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This is one of the Columbus Series books. A romanticized story of a young lady being kept from her love, until a war breaks out, and her lover is injured. The war ends for him, then and only then, are the two lovebirds able to be together.
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There are advertisements on the inside front and back covers. ie...
The Simplex Typewriter for Two dollars and seventy-five cents. Bromo-seltzer: Price, ten cents, twenty-five cents, fifty cents, and one dollar per bottle Lovell Diamond Cycles for ladies and gents eighty-five dollars |
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There is a quote on the cover by Thos. Carlyle:
*May*blessings*be*upon*the*head*of*Cadmus* *the*Phoenicians*or*whoever*it*was*that*invented*books* |
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A handwritten note is on the inside page facing the inside front cover, stating:
Presented to Lizzie Philipsen by J R and C A Longfellow Dec 25th 1892 |
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There is also another handwritten note later in the book to Lizzie from Ella,
Lizzie The years may come and go Each bring its shair of sorrow But you and I will never forget The Christmas of 1892 Ella |
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((All spelling and grammar mistakes are left just the way they were printed in the book.))
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