title: No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years
author:  Annabel Goldsmith 
description: This characterful memoir reads like an annotated guestbook...the best of her anecdotes are animated by an irresistibly mischevious streak<b><i>DAILY MAIL</i></b>
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  # The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Francis A. Durivage
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  THE GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER.
  
  
  PHILETUS POTTS.
  
  
  THE GONDOLIER.
  
  
  THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS.
  
  
  THE THREE BRIDES.
  
  
  CALIFORNIA SPECULATION.
  
  
  THE FRENCH GUARDSMAN.
  
  
  PERSONAL SATISFACTION.
  
  
  THE CASTLE ON THE RHINE.
  
  
  LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
  
  
  THE CAREER OF AN ARTIST.
  
  
  SOUVENIRS OF A RETIRED OYSTERMAN IN ILL HEALTH.
  
  
  
  
  
  THE NEW YEAR'S STOCKINGS.
  
  
  THE OBLIGING YOUNG MAN.
  
  
  EULALIE LASALLE.
  
  
  THE OLD CITY PUMP.
  
  
  THE TWO PORTRAITS.
  
  
  UNCLE OBED.
  
  
  THE CASKET OF JEWELS.
  
  
  ACTING CHARADES.
  
  
  THE GREEN CHAMBER.
  
  
  HE WASN'T A HORSE JOCKEY.
  
  
  FUNERAL SHADOWS.
  
  
  THE LATE ELIAS MUGGS,
  
  
  THE SOLDIER'S WIFE.
  
  
  A KISS ON DEMAND.
  
  
  THE RIFLE SHOT.
  
  
  THE WATER CURE.
  
  
  THE COSSACK.
  
  
  MARRIED FOR MONEY.
  
  
  THE EMIGRANT SHIP.
  
  
  THE LAST OF THE STAGE COACHES.
  
  
  THE SEXTON OF ST. HUBERT'S.
  
  
  JACK