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The Associated Friends
No full textOn March 5, 1937, a few friends of the Rutgers University Library, led by the Librarian, Mr. George A. Osborn, and the chairman of the Library Committee of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Richard T. Greene, met in the Trustees' Room of Old Queens to organize the Associated Friends of the Library of Rutgers University. Dr. Jacob G. Lipman was made temporary chairman in charge of plans for the permanent organization of the Associated Friends
The Washington Letters
No full textAmong the George Washington collection are the eleven Washington letters in the Rutgers Library. These eleven original letters carry more than mere antiquarian interest. They were all written, as might be expected from their present location, in or near New Jersey, during those anxious years when the Commander-in-Chief, maneuvering between New York and Philadelphia, was desperately trying to hold his own against the British forces and to keep the waning enthusiasm for independence alive. The span covered is from January 11, 1777, to August 29, 1781; collectively they furnish a glimpse of the problems and difficulties of the period of the most stirring campaigns. Six are addressed to Colonel David Forman, three to Colonel John Neilson, one to Simeon DeWitt, and one to the justices of Somerset county. The last-named, the least personal of all the letters, is a requisition for cattle and grain for the army. Though courteous in tone, it veils a threat of more summary action in case the request is not met
Malt, Milton, and MSS.
No full textAdams gives a lively description of the Library's fine lot of first editions and manuscripts of modern authors. They are from the collection of Robert Kriendler, the co-owner of the famous Club 21 in New York City, a haunt of modern American writers. Especially well represented is John O'Hara's sixty-six typescripts of stories and sketches printed by the New York. Other authors included in the collection are Somerset Maugham, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edna Ferber, Zona Gale, Alexander Woollcott and many others
William Cobbett: Philadelphia Bookseller and Publisher
No full textThe article concerns the libel suit brought by Dr. Benjamin Rush against Cobbett, who claimed Rush medical methods were worthless and subsequently Cobbett's dispute with his own defense lawyer, Robert Goodloe Harper, who lost the suit. The financil loses due to the suite were high. Cobbett was also Harper's publisher, so Cobbett demanded Harper deducted from his legal fees all the expenses related ito publishing Cobbett had done for him. The "Harper bill" for the publishing expenses is transcribed here
A Novel and Two Letters
No full textTwo letters of William Dean Howells shed light on his novel, "A Woman's Reason," published in 1883
Boys Will Be Boys . . .
No full textCowen writes about his experiences in doing research on the social life of Queen's College and coming across a 1776 letter by a twenty-year old student, Simeon DeWitt (1756-1834), who became Geographer of the Revolutionary Army, Surveyor General of New York, and Chancellor of the University of the State of New York. (There are others articles about him in this journal.) DeWitt writes about a romantic fantasy which Cowen compares to a similar letter by Washington Irving written in 1804. Both letters are reproduced in full
A Jefferson Letter
No full textMcCormick privides context to and a transcription of a Thomas Jefferson letter (Jan. 1. 1819) concerning the establishment of the University of Virginia held in the Rutgers Library