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The Lecompton Constitution
No full textEllis discusses this pre-Civil War pro-slavery constitution of Kansas. For two generations the Lecompton Constitution lay hidden from the public eye in a Rutgers safe
Tylden's Almanac: The Chapbook of a Royalist in the Restoration
No full textAmong Rutgers' extensive holding of almanacs is one of particular interest printed in 1663. But it is not so much the content of the almanac that is interesting but for the jottings of the owner of it in the almanac. The owner, "Willm Tylden" used the endpapers to copy down a variety of poems, ballads, epitaphs, epigraphs, and household accounts. His jottings make this old almanac a fascinating reflection of the turbulent years just after the Restoration, as well as a mirror of one man's ardent royalist sympathies and somewhat libertine tastes
William Cobbett's "Grammar" and its Purchasers
No full textOsbornes writes about the great popularity and many editions of William Cobbett's "A Grammar of the English Language." As an outspoken advocate of radical change inEngland, the "Grammar" was to have been a weapon against his country's system of government and its rulers and its intended readers were the working class. It is more than likely, however, that the majority of buyers were ambitious members ofthe lower middle-class plus some relatively well-off artisans
"Reflections of a Saint"
No full textIN 1772 the Boston printer John Kneeland published a thin pamphlet containing a poem entitled REFLECTIONS OF A SAINT, UNDER A VIEW OF THE PRESENCE OF AN INFINITELY HOLY AND ALL-SEEING GOD by someone who signed himself "Philomuse." The only known copy of this eight-page imprint is in the Rutgers Library, though the John Carter Brown Library owns a "mutilated" and undated copy of another printing of the poem in Norwich, Connecticuty by Green and Spoonery printers of that town from 1773 to 1778. The poem is reprinted here