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The Willam A. Hughes Collection of Modern Literature
No full textThe article describes a collection reflecting a rich assortment of twentieth century literature, donated to Rutgers University Library by its collector, the late Mr. William A. Hughes, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Especially impressive in this collection is the excellent quality of book-making before the Second World War—of beautiful, legible type, widely spaced on the page, of fine paper, and of individual book design. The focus of the collection is primarily British and American literature, with a few translations from French, German, Russian, and Portuguese
Last Words in Volume 15:2
No full textMarchand talks about the passing of a $2,000,000 state apppropriation for first unit of a modern library building
What the Historian Asks of the Librarian
No full textAnother speech made at the dedication of the new Library
Sentimental Journey: The Diary of Margaret Miller Davidson
No full textThis article is based on a diary of Margeret Miller Davidson (1823-1938) who during her short, sickly life produced a body of poetry and a diary. Washington Irving saw to it that her poetry was published after her death. Her diary is transcribed in this article
Simeon De Witt, Class of 1776
No full textThe article covers the life and career of Simeon De Witt (1756-1834). De Witt was the sole member of his graduating class (1776). He had an illustrious career as chief geographer in the American Army and surveyor-general of New York
Philip Freneau's Manuscript of "The Spy"
No full textThe article concerns a manuscript of an unfinished play, "The Spy," by Philip Freneau held in Rutgers Library
Pre-Raphaelitism and the "Oxford and Cambridge Magazine"
No full textGordon surveys the content of the "Oxford and Cambridge Magazine," a Pre-Raphaelite periodical which appeared monthly between January and December of 1856, under the editorial guidance of William Morris and William Fulford. It sounded a vigorous note of protest against the values of life in the Victorian age and coupled the aesthetic revolt of William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Rossetti with the social dissatisfaction of Carlyle and Ruskin
Verse Miscellanies and the Circulation of a Donne Elegy
No full textAlthough there are only a handful of manuscript copies of Milton’s poems extant, there exist a large number of John Donne’s poems — including the elegy in the Rutgers collection. As Stephanie Hunt shows in the essay that follows, this love poem was too scandalously explicit to be printed in 1633, two years after Donne’s death, when most of his poetry first appeared in print. The scribal anthologist who collected the poem set it on the same page as a little sonnet, which also provides insight into the practices and assumptions of contemporary readers. The accompanying poem would not now be anthologized with Donne or included in an anthology of Renaissance verse, as it is more a tavern song than a product of high culture
