Diaries of Harriet Hale Rix, 1882-1884.

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Diaries of Harriet Hale Rix, 1882-1884.

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The two diaries, which Harriet kept in 1882 and 1884, detail her life as a young single woman in San Francisco. She describes her social activities including parties, family camping trips, visits to the theater and her frequent trips to the library (she keeps lists of the books she reads in the back of the diaries); she also talks a lot about school and her family; she often mentions her sister Annie, who is away from home much of the time working as a teacher. Harriet often discusses the current political issues of the time including Chinese immigrants in California.

2 volumes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Rix, Harriet Hale, 1863-

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Harriet Hale Rix grew up in San Francisco, California. Her sister, Annie Rix Militz, helped found the religious group "Home of Truth" which was part of the New Thought movement. In the 1890s, Annie put her sister Harriet in charge of the "Home of Truth" group in San Francisco, where she led it successfully for several years. Harriet wrote several articles for her sister's magazine Master mind, as well as several books including: Christian mind healing (1916), The rich mentality (1916), and By th...

Militz, Annie Rix, -1924

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