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Notes from the Library in Volume 13:1
No full text"The New American Magazine" By Kenneth Q. Jennings"The Jersey Gazette" By Richard P. McCormic
"Poems of Two Friends"
No full textWilliam Dean Howells is generally associated with the beginnings of critical realism in American fiction. His first published work, a rare little volume of poetry-"Poems of Two Friends"-, however, reveals something of his romantic youth. Two letters published here for the first time help place the volume of poetry into context
Leigh Hunt's London Journal
No full textMarchand identifies "Leigh Hunt's London Journal" as mine for information on the social or literary history of Pre-Victorian England. It was published from April 2, 1834, and ended abruptly on December 26, 1835
New Brunswick and Transportation: A Brief Sketch of the History of Transportation and the Architecture of the Train Station
No full textPreface for Special Issues: Consumerism, Labor Unions, and the Pursuit of the American Dream
No full text"Quaker" Politics in Eighteenth Century New Jersey: A Documentary Account
No full textGerlach looks at a 25th of the 3d Month, 1772 broadside, "FROM the WEEKLY MEETING IN G[REE]N [WIC]H, to the MONTHLY MEETING in S [ALE] M" held in Rutgers Special Collections to demostrated the fractional nature of politics in colonial New Jersey, which developed in and continued long after the proprietary colonies of East and West Jersey. It is related to a provincial election of 1772 in Cumberland County. The campaign was conspicuously devoid of ideological appeals or matters of public policy. Instead, ad hominem arguments, red herrings, and emotional appeals dominated the contest. In sum, the significance of the broadside lies in its graphic description of the rough-and-tumble, no-holds-barred style of politics that was the hallmark of colonial New Jersey
Richard Ellis, Printer
No full textThis article is about the life and works of Richard Ellis (1894-1942), a printer and designer of print. Miers remarks were written in connection with an exhibit of Richard Ellis books and print miscellanea at Rutgers
A Letter from Basil Hall to Charles Dickens
No full textNoland brings to the readers' attention a March 29, 1841 letter from Basil Hall (1788-1844) to Charles Dickens in the Library. It askes Dickens if Hall's friend, Samuel Joseph (b. ?-d. 1850), could make a bust of Dickens. The letter is transcribed in full
Thomas Bradbury Chandler's "An Appeal to the Public"
No full textConcerns the campaign of Thomas Bradbury Chandler (1726-1790) for an episcopate in the colonial Anglican church in America