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Bequest of Gabriel Wells
No full textGabriel Wells was the Honorary President of the Associated Friends of the Library of Rutgers University since its formation in 1937. In addition to a number of gifts which he sent to the Library from time to time, he bequeathed to Rutgers books and manuscripts valued at ten thousand dollars
Re-Writing the History of Tudor Politics and Government: The Regimes of Somerset and Norththumberland
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Manuscript and Typescript Material Relating to Howells's "The Son of Royal Langbrith"
No full textWhile no complete manuscripts of W. D. Howells' major novels are known to be in existence, the Rutgers University Library is fortunate in having purchased in 1946 two fragments of manuscript and typescript of a large portion of one of Howells's late important novels, "The Son of Royal Langbrith." Burrows describes how he uses this material and letters related to this novel in his project to edit a new edition of this work
Notes from the Library in Volume 2:2
No full text"One cent Pieces" by Sydney P. Noe, about coin collection at Rutgers. "The Commons Journals" by Philip L. Ralph. "The Thoreau Newsletter"by Rudolf Kirk
Henry Stubbe and the First English Book on Chocolate
No full textMain considers the fascinating life and works of Henry Stubbe (1632-1676), with special attention to his book on chocolate, "The Indian Nectar, or a Discourse concerning Chocolata" published in 1662. Main characterizes Stubbe's book on chololate as "the kind of book [Robert] Burton would have written had he been Defoe.
Smallpox Inoculation in Colonial New Jersey: A Contemporary Account
No full textGerlach writes about and transcribes a manuscript in Rutgers' Special Collections "The General Method of Enoculation as now Practised." This work the only known account of variolization in Colonial New Jersey and is especially interesting because of its vivid and detailed exposition of the inoculation procedure from initial preparation to the treatment of after-effects
The Place of the Library; Addressed to the Associate Friends, May 12, 1939
No full textDiscusses the place of the Library in Rutgers and libraries in universities in general