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Milton in the Library
No full textFulton describes how this special issue was inspired by a spring 2011 exhibit in the Alexander Library at Rutgers which consisted of about 150 books, pamphlets, broadsides, and manuscripts, and other artifacts having to do with John Milton, his political and cultural contexts, and his literary afterlife. He summaries the contents of each article in this issue and how they fit together. He also outlines ways in which the actual artifact reveals far more about the conditions of writing and reading than can be reproduced in modern editions or in digital form. As we move forward in the centuries after Milton’s death, we encounter many different Miltons —the young but proper Milton of the eighteenth century, replaced by the bold, powerful, prophetic, Blakean Milton early in the nineteenth century
Lincoln and Douglas and the Naughty Nursery Rhyme
No full textThis article explores odd bits of Americana ephemera from the 1860 presidential election between Lincoln and Douglas found in the Library
Last Words in Volume 12:1
No full textMarchand writes about his assumption of the editorship of the Journal and pays tribute to the previous editor, Rudolf Kirk
Musical Resources in the Rutgers University Library
No full textWilkinson highlights a music collection preserved in Special Collections consisting of manuscripts and printed material from the early eighteenth century and music published in this country before the Civil War, as well as more modern publications that appeared in limited editions
The First New Jersey Imprint
No full textRockefeller writes about the first New Jersey imprint, consisting of three Acts passed by the legislature at Burlington, New Jersey, on the 30th day of November, 1723. The printer is William Bradford, "Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the Province of New Jersey.
Moving a Library
No full textCameron writes about the complexity of moving from the Voohees Library to the new University Library (later known as the Alexander Library), in 1956
The Unanimous State
No full textMcCormick recounts the immediate chain of events, that led up to the moment of ratification. It began on November 23, 1786, when New Jersey became the first state to appoint delegates to the Constitutional Convention