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No full textDescribes an exhibit on publication of the Rutgers University Press as well as an exhibit on Library's collection of Washington's letters illustrated his activities in New Jersey during the Revolution, and one on Rutgersensia
The Brodhead Diaries 1846-1849
No full textThe article is based on the diaries of John Romeyn Brodhead (1814-1873), written 1846-1849, the period in which he acted as Secretary of the United States Legation to the Court of St.James under George Bancroft (1800 - 1891). They present an intimate glimpse of the personalities, politics, and culture of the period
The Ralph Voorhees Portrait
No full textTo us of the Rutgers community, the name Voorhees has become inseparably identified with the spirit and the service of our library, and with the vigorous growth it has experienced since the turn of the century. It was in 1903 that the late Ralph Voorhees presented the library building to the college. When twenty years later the original structure became overcrowded, his widow, Elizabeth Rodman Voorhees provided the funds for the needed addition. We have again been reminded of the benefactions of this devoted couple by the presentation, on November 13 last, of a portrait of Ralph Voorhees, the gift of members of the Voorhees family and of the Class of 1888
A Zola "Manuscript"
No full textThe Zola "manuscript" is a heavily edited transcription of Emile Zola's ditation for an article in the "Nation" of October 9, 1902, about how he wrote his famous essay "War." It is held in the Theodore Stanton Collection in Special Collections. The original "War" article was published in the April, 1900 number of the "North American Review.
The Symington Collection
No full textMarchand describes the Symington Collections of nineteenth and early twentieth century British literature, previously owned by J. Alex. Symington and acquired by the Library. He summarizes the contents in the following groups: The Brontes, George Borrow, Swinburne and His Circle, The Rossettis, Early Nineteenth Century, the Mid-Victorians, and Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. It contains original letters, draft literary manuscripts and contemporary publications of the period. The Symington Collection is Rutgers Special Collections most important single, literary collection
Medieval Materials Available to Rutgers Students
No full textCharanis states that of the materials available to the history student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, that in the field of medieval history, both Greek and Latin, is among the richest. This is largely because of the extensive holdings of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary and the important acquisitions which the Rutgers University Library has made
Notes from the Library Volume 16:2
No full text"An Egyptian Tombstela" by Bernard V. Bothmer and Helmut von Efrra"Henry James: Correction" by Rudolf KirkMicrofil