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No full text"John Woolman on War" by Robert E. Spiller."A Woolman Document" by Mary Ellis Darington.Rutgers Publications-"Colonel James Neilson, A Business Man in the Early Machine Age in New Jersey 1784-1862," by Robert T. Thompson. Reviewed by Roger H. McDonough; "Composing Sticks and Mortar Boards," by Earl Schenc Miers,with an Introduction by P. J. Conkwright. Reviewed by Donald F. Cameron. "That Rascal Freneau, A Study in Literary Failure" by Lewis Leary. Reviewed by Rudolf Kirk
A Passy Passport
No full textShortly before his death the late Robert Hude Neilson, of the Class of 1903, gave to the Library, among a collection of rare materials, a passport printed by Benjamin Franklin at his press at Passy
Letters of James Anthony Froude
No full textThis article is the fourth and last by Bennent in which he edits Froude's Letters in the Library's Theodore Stanton collection. There are 29 letters in total in this series. The letters here are from Froude to Stanton written between 1888 and 1894 and are replies to Stanton's requests for Froude to contribute articles to Stanton's various publications
Hashimoto Sanai: A Japanese Martyr
No full textWelden translates from Japanese and puts into historical context a manuscript, "A Biographical Sketch of Hashimoto Sanai" from the William Elliot Griffis Collection. Hashimoto Sanai (1834-1859) was reformer and martyr in mid-nineteenth-century Japan
The 19th Century German Diary of a New Jersey Geologist
No full textChute explores a diary of a young New Jersey scientist William Kitchell held in the Library concering a trrip to Germany that began in the fall of 1852. The purpose of the trip was to acquire the advanced training which would prepare him for his position as professor of geology at the Newark Wesleyan Institute. The diary contains the personal sketches of world famous men of science, the prevalence of soldiers in Berlin, the horrible climate, the slowness of transportation, and his questioning of the authenticity of the Genesis story of the great flood