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The First Congressional Election in New Jersey
No full textNew Jersey elected a Congressional delegation in 1789 which was friendly to the new Constitution. A letter acquired by the library from the correspondence of Joseph Bloomfield and Jonathan Dayton gives us a glimpse of what went on behind the scenes. Written by Bloomfield on Feb. 28, 1789, while the election was in progress, it tells a story of intense personal conflicts and high pressure politics which proves that Jerseymen even at that early date had little to learn of the fine art of politics
Notes from the Library in Volume 5:2
No full text"Allinson Farm Diaries" by Carl R. Woodard. Concerning a farm diary written by Samual Allinson from 1825 to 1883, acquired by the Library.Theodore Strong--His Library" by Richard Morris. Concerning the collection of Theodore Strong (1790-1869) who was a professor of mathematics at Rutgers from 1827 to 1863, acquired by the Library.Rutgers Publications:CARL RAYMOND WOODWARD. Ploughs and Politicks. Charles Read of New Jersey and His Notes on Agriculture. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1941 (Rutgers University Studies in History, Number Two) reviewd by Roy F. Nichols
Maxwell Bodenheim and the Theatre
No full textA presentation note to Helen Westley from Bodenheim in a copy of "Replenishing Jessica" by Maxwell Bodenheim owned by the Library is the starting point of Charney's article about American theatre during the first half of the twentieth Century
Gide's Letters to Gosse
No full textRichards mines some of the thirty-eight letters in French which André Gide (1869–1951) wrote to Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) between July 14, 1909 and January 16, 1927 held in the Symington Collection
Last Words in Volume 17:2
No full textMarchand looks at what people were reading fifty years ago (at the beginning of the twenthieth century)
The Athenian Society of Queen's College
No full textThis article describes content and places into historical context the "Transaction of the Athenian Society from the Year 1776 to 1786," an old minute book of this student society of Queen's College. It contains what we believe to be the earliest reference to a library at Rutgers