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Lewis Morris--New Jersey's Colonial Poet-Governor
No full textLewis Morris (1671-1746) was the govenor of colonial New Jersey from 1738-1746 and his family papers are in Rutgers Special Collections. Among these papers are a sheaf of some eighteen poems of the Governor's own composition. Cook discusses his public life and his poetry. He concludes Moris "practiced poetry as a gentlemanly diversion, intended for little more than the private amusement of himself and a few friends. It is perhaps a sufficient tribute to Lewis Morris's satiric vigor that the modern reader, more than two centuries later, can still share some measure of that amusement.
Notes from the Library
No full text"Robert Adrian's First Analyst" by Albert E. Meder, Jr. Corrects an error in the early history of American mathematics."Byron's Don Juan" by Leslie A. Marchand. A review of "Byron's Don Juan, a Critical Study," by Elizabeth French Boyd. Rutgers University Press."An Unpublished Whittier Letter" by Raymond B. Bennet. Concerns a letter by John Greenleaf Whitter in the Stanton Memorial Collection
Materials Needed for the Library
No full textThe Rutgers University Library lacks the files of the Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the State of New Jersey.
Earl Schenck Mier, Historian
No full textAngle pays tribute to Earl Schenck Mier, who died the year before this article was published, as an historian and writer. A bibliography of his publications for both adults and juveniles is appended to the article
James McHenry: A Minor American Poet
No full textThis article concerns James McHenry(November 16, 1753 – May 3, 1816), known as a figure of some prominence in our early political life, but almost completely unknown as a writer of verse. A short time ago, however, the Rutgers University Library came into the possession of a sheaf of McHenry's manuscript poems, running to over a hundred pages in all, the majority of which display a sufficient poetic merit to justify their publication here, for, in the editor's belief, they may enrich in some slight degree the lean period to which they belong
Historical Research and Discovery in Private Libraries: Positivism in Comte, Donoso, and Ortega
No full textEdmund Gosse Visits Robert Louis Stevenson
No full textEdmund Gosse (1849–1928) was known for his striking portraits of contemporary literary figures. In this article, Young writes about Gosse's encounter with Robert Louis Stevenson and his family in 1881, using letters from the Symington Collection as his primary sources
