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Recent Exhibitions
No full textExhibitions on rare coins and currency and other materials depicting the history of American economics, signers of the Declaration and Constitution, Louis Kossuth, and Americana
Cobbett and Gillray
No full textThis article concerns the series of hand-colored plates entitled "The Life of William Cobbett by Himself," executed by the great English political caricaturist John Gillray, and published at London September 29, 1809, by H. Humphrey. It is one of a number of anti-Cobbett publications of the time
Seven Letters of Washington Irving
No full textThe Irving letters in the Rutgers Library were written in the years 1804 a nd 1805 by Washington to his older brothers, William and Peter, and to his friend, Andrew Hicks. They are more than personal letters, for even on this first trip abroad the twenty-one-year-old Irving contemplated the publication of a journal of travel. This article concerns two long letters about the first part of Irvings' grand tour of Europe when he stay in Bordeaux
Political Essays of William Paterson
No full textMcCormick explores the forty-six political essays by William Paterson (1745– 1806) contained in a folio volume of ninety-one pages that has been one of the unexploited treasures of the Rutgers University Library. In addition, five essays that were written under the pseudonym "Aurelius" are published in the article
The Verse Problems of Early American Arithmetics
No full textAllen explores Arithmetic books used in American schools before 1850 which stated the arithmetic problems in the form of verse. For several generations of American schoolboys, the verse problem is seen to have been a part, admittedly a small part, of arithmetic and related studies. The verse problem varied, in its depth and complexity, from merely the casual and interesting, to the difficult, challenging, and decidedly unusual
Philip Freneau's Father
No full textProfessor Leary, of the University of Miami, Florida, again gives us a glimpse into his findings in the Rutgers Library as he completes his work on a new biography of Philip Freneau. A year ago he allowed us to print for the first time since their original appearance in the New Brunswick Fredonian a number of poems by Freneau. This time he is revealing the significance of a book of transcripts of letters which were kept by Pierre Fresneau, the father of Philip. Former biographers have presented Philip Freneau as born into the tradition of wealth and culture. Here for the first time he is shown to have come from far more humble origins