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A Walt Whitman Manuscript
No full textThis article is a transcription of and an essay about a manuscript draft of Walt Whitman's "Hush'd be the Camps To-day," one of the poems in which Whiman lamented the death of Lincoln
Romance, Politics, or Madness? John Paul Jones and the Countess of Selkirk
No full textBeck's discovery of an inscription in a book, "United States Magazine," (Philadelphia, 1779) from John Paul Jones to the Countess of Selkirk, Scotland, sets off an interesting line of speculation as to what happened when on April 22, 1778 Johns entered the Earl of Selkirk's masion with the intention of looting it. The incident began a very strange relationship between Jones and the Countess
Some Swinburne Manuscripts
No full textLang explores the literary manuscripts of Swinburne in the Symington Collection and transcribes some previously unpublished poems in the collection
Letters to an "Enchanted Guest": W.D. Howells to Edmund Gosse
No full textThe Kirks explore letters that fill out the story of the Edumund Gosse and W.D. Howells friendship. The letters are dated from 1883 to 190
Notes from the Library in Volume 3:1
No full textRutgers University Studies:1.) a review by Carroll C. Pratt of "American Psychology before William James," by Jay W. Fay. Rutgers University Studies in Psychology: Number One.2.) a review by Donald J. McGinn of "Two Bookes of Constancie. Written in Latine by Justus Lipsius. Englished by Sir John Stradling." Edited with an Introduction by Rudolf Kirk. Notes by Clayton Hall. Rutgers University Studies in English: Number Two."The New Jersey and Pennsylvania Agricultural Monthly Intelligencer and Farmers' Magazine" discussed by Carl R. Woodward."Ralph Voorhees in 1860," by Rudolf Kirk
The Diary of Florence Atkinson, 1883-1886
No full textSharkely describes the contents of a diary of Florence Atkinson, a young American womam who who goes to Argentina to teach. The diary of Florence Atkinson reflects the stereotyped image of the 19th century liberal. Philosophically well-intentioned, she was, in practice, incapable of assimilating people and circumstances foreign to her Anglo-American background. When she discovered that the provincial Argentines were very different from North Americans and that they could not or would not embrace those changes necessary to change them into North Americans, she retreated in disillusionment
"Dives and Paupers": ORTHODOXY AND LIBERALISM
No full textSlater writes about the incunabulum, "Diver and Paupers" (Westminister, 1496) acquired by the Library, which had wide attractiveness for earlier readers. A book about the ten commandments, it appealed to both Catholics and Protestants alike. This particular copy has interesting marginalia reflecting the opinions of its owners over the centuries. The author's orthodoxy never comes seriously into question, but within its context he almost always chooses the gentler path
