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An Early American Schoolbook
No full textCoad writes about "Miscellanies, Moral and Instructive, in Prose and Verse; Collected from Various Authors, for the Schools, and Improvement of Young Persons of Both Sexes," first published in Philadelphia in 1787. It is one of the earliest American readers as well as one of the earliest American textbooks of literature. The work is attributed to Milcah Martha Moore (1740-1829)
Noah Webster The Schoomaster of Our Republic
No full textRutgers University Library has recently acquired "A Collection of Essays and Fugitive Writings on Moral, Historical, Political and Literary Subjects" to add to its group of writings by Noah Webster. The volume is especially valuable and interesting because it was Webster's personal copy. All of the essays in this collection were written before Webster was thirty years of age and were published in June 1790. In 1838, approximately fifty years after most of the essays were written, Webster carefully read the volume, marking passages and making marginal notations, signing and dating many of his comments
John Auther, Philomusus
No full textThe article is about Auther's one book of poetry "Poems on Various Occations," (1777) which is one of the great rarities of the Rutgers Library's eighteenth century collection
Last Words in Volume 13:1
No full textMarchand speaks of the growth of the university and the library from a small college to a university with radidly growing graduate programs, especially after WWII. He notes the G.I. generation swelled undergraduate enrollment and were entering graduate programs. He state that the Library had acquired the fundamental research tools and many of the reference works in special fields that are essential to graduate study, even before rapid growth of graduate program
The Poems of Thomas Kennedy of Maryland
No full textA Presbyterian emigrant from Scotland, Thomas Kennedy (1776-1832) became a prominent legislator in Maryland, known for his strong advocacy for civil and political rights in America, especially for Jewish people. He is a rather obscure figure in the history of American literature, but Mehlman makes a case for his poetry in which his strong convictions are displayed
The Associated Friends in Volume 2:1
No full textWith the assistance of the Associated Friends as a body andof several members who contributed as individuals, the Librarywas able last May to purchase a number of importantmanuscripts relating to the history of New Jersey. This materialcame on the market at the sale in New York of the libraryof J. Lawrence Boggs
