Letter dated Oct. 9th 1917, written by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, philanthropist and mother of William Randolph Hearst, from her Hacienda del Pozo de Verona in Pleasanton, California, is in reply to a request for monetary assistance from Baron M. Meller, 516 Gough St., San Francisco.

"Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent and powerful women."--Provided by publisher.

Letters from famous men and women to their mothers.

Handwritten, undated personal note on monogrammed stationery, with black mourning borders, of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, to a young child living in Santa Cruz, California. Includes matching envelope, also with black mourning border, addressed to Mrs. Ida Neal and postmarked June 28, 1891.

Arriving in the U.S. in 1883, Antoni A. Paryski climbed from typesetter to newspaper publisher in Toledo, Ohio. His weekly Ameryka-Echo became a defining publication in the international Polish diaspora and its much-read letters section a public sphere for immigrants to come together as a community to discuss issues in their own language. Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann mines seven decades' worth of thoughts expressed by Ameryka-Echo readers to chronicle the ethnic press's role in the immigrant experience. Open and unedited debate harkened back to homegrown journalistic traditions, and Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann opens up the nuances of an editorial philosophy that cultivated readers as content creators. As she shows, ethnic publications in the process forged immigrant social networks and pushed notions of education and self-improvement throughout Polonia. Paryski, meanwhile, built a publishing empire that earned him the nickname ""The Polish Hearst."" Detailed and incisive, The Polish Hearst opens the door on the long-overlooked world of ethnic publishing and the amazing life of one of its towering figures.