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Augusta Evans Wilson papers, MSS.1563
No full textAbstract: Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a bound manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and one manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama. Her personal correspondence contains original letters and photocopies, the majority written to Rachel Lyons Heustis and J. L. M. Curry, discussing life during the Civil War and Mrs. Wilson's novels. Other prominent correspondents include Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; educator, Congressman, and Baptist minister, J.L.M. Curry; and Congressman and U.S. Consul at Leeds, Norfleet Harris.The newspaper clippings include requests by Mrs. Wilson for assistance in preserving graves and erecting monuments of the Confederate dead as well as an obituary essay she wrote at the death of her 22-month old niece and namesake, Augusta Vivian Evans. There are also several articles about her childhood home, Sherwood Hall (later renamed St. Elmo after her story) in Columbus, Georgia.The manuscript is a bound, hand-written copy of
Vashti with a note from the publisher, G. W. Carlton, written on the title page saying, "To the Printer. This Ms is to be Carefully handled and preserved. Every page of it. April 8, 1869 Carlton"Biographical/Historical Note: Augusta Jane Evans was born May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia, the daughter of Matt Ryon and Sarah Skrine (Howard) Evans. She was educated in her home under the supervision of her mother. In 1839, after the bankruptcy of her father's business, the family plantation and possessions were sold at auction, and the family moved into a modest plantation house at Oswitchee in Russell County, Alabama. By early 1845, Augusta's parents made the decision to leave their troubles behind and move the family to Texas.The large Evans family eventually settled in San Antonio in 1846. It was here, at the age of fifteen, that Augusta began her first novel,
Inez: A Tale of the Alamo. In 1849, when thousands were rushing westward in search of gold, Matt Evans prepared to take his family east. The discomforts of frontier life and the numerous occasions of violence near San Antonio more than likely contributed significantly to his decision to leave Texas.After the family moved back to Alabama they settled in Mobile where Augusta finished
Inez, a sentimental, moralistic anti-Catholic love story, and presented it to her father as a Christmas present in 1854. It was published anonymously a short time later. Her second novel,
Beulah, was published in 1859 and sold over 22,000 copies during its first year of publication. For an eighteen-year-old female author, this was practically unheard of. The proceeds of the book allowed her family to purchase Georgia Cottage on Springhill Avenue in Mobile.During the Civil War, Augusta was a staunch supporter of the Confederacy and was active in the service of the South as a propagandist. She had been engaged to a journalist from New York but broke off the engagement in 1860 because he supported Abraham Lincoln. She sewed sandbags for the defense of the community and established a hospital near her residence that was dubbed Camp Beulah in honor of her novel. She also carried on a correspondence with two noted Confederate leaders, General P.G.T. Beauregard and Alabama congressman, J. L. M. Curry.During this time she published a pro-Confederate propaganda novel titled
Macaria; or Altars of Sacrifice. It was extremely popular with both Southerners and Northerners alike and was circulated among the Northern troops to cause rancor in the ranks. General George Henry Thomas, commander of the Union Army in Tennessee, had all copies of the book among the troops under his command confiscated and burned. Unbeknownst to Augusta,
Macaria was also published in the New York. The royalties from its sale were held in trust for her until after the Civil War. Augusta only learned of the royalties after the war when she accompanied her brother, Howard Evans, to New York to see a medical specialist to treat his paralyzed arm caused by a war injury. The funds allowed Augusta and her family to weather the years of Reconstruction without excessive want.Augusta published her most popular novel,
St. Elmo, in 1866. Within four months it sold over a million copies and was so popular that many towns, hotels, steamboats and even a cigar brand were named after it. Augusta Evans was the first American woman writer to make over $100,000, a record that would not be surpassed until Edith Wharton did it several years later.On December 3, 1868, Augusta married Colonel Lorenzo Madison Wilson, a widowed Mobile business man, twenty-seven years her senior. She moved her favorite writing desk to Ashland, his home in Spring Hill, Mobile County, Alabama, virtually next door to the Evans's family home, Georgia Cottage. She continued writing, though more sporadically, as she became the first lady of Mobile society. Augusta finished
Vashti,
Infelice, and a murder mystery (which she declared was her favorite)
At the Mercy of Tiberius before her husband's death in 1891. After his death, she left Ashland and moved into her brother Howard's home in Mobile. In spite of deteriorating health and eyesight, Augusta wrote two more romantic novels,
A Speckled Bird and
Devota. She died of a heart attack on May 9, 1909, one day after her seventy-fourth birthday.Author of:
Inez, A Tale of the Alamo (1855);
Beulah (1859);
Macaria, or Altars of Sacrifice (1864);
St. Elmo, or Saved at Last (1866);
Vashti, or Until Death Us Do Part (1869);
Infelice (1875);
At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887);
A Speckled Bird (1902);
Devota (1907)
Combinatorial ink-jet printing for ceramic discovery
No full textPhDAn aspirating and dispensing printer established inside a robot gantry equipped
with furnace and measurement table is used to prepare thick-film combinatorial
libraries. Implementation of series of screening tests for ceramic inks that address
stability against sedimentation, evaporation and particle segregation during
drying, has provided a series of calibration inks can be used for calibration of
this printer. The instrument can assemble ceramic mixtures with compositional
accuracy of 1-3 wt %. By changing the amount of dispersant used in the inks or
by printing onto a porous substrate, the geometry of residues from dried ceramic
ink droplets can be modified to facilitate property measurements and uniform
composition, as planned, can be achieved. The same material prepared in three
ways, in the form of dried ink, ink-jet printed as for a combinatorial sample and
by conventional compaction gave similar dielectric measurements. A
combinatorial system has been developed so that combinatorial libraries can be
printed, fired and screened automatically. A ternary A1203-TiO2-ZrO2 system
was first studied using the developed combinatorial method.
The particle segregation during drying of multi-component ceramic ink drops is
not due to preferential sedimentation unless dispersant addition is restricted. The
segregation is due to the partitioning of particles between the growing peripheral
'foot' that develops during drying and the diminishing liquid pool which contains
vigorous recirculation flows. Better dispersed particles remain in the pool and
hence are found in excess on the upper surface of residues. Less well dispersed
particles join the 'foot' earlier in the drying process.
The contact angle and height of droplets containing large amounts of dispersant,
steadily reduced during drying until a minimum value was reached; the contact
diameter being almost unchanged during drying. These droplet residues retained
a dome shape. Droplets of suspensions containing small additions of dispersant
terminated in a 'doughnut' shaped residue
The prospect before us. ... [electronic resource].
No full text"The design of this book is to exhibit the mutiplied corruption of the federal government, and more especially the misconduct of the president, Mr. Adams."--v. 1, p. [3].Attributed to Callender by Evans and the Library of Congress.Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint.Imprint varies. Vol. 2, pt. 1: Richmond: Printed and sold by M. Jones, printer to the Commonwealth; by S. Pleasants, Jun. at the office of the Virginia Argus; by T. Field, Petersburgh; and by the author, in the jail of Richmond .. [1800]; v. 2, pt. 2: Richmond: Printed by H. Pace, and sold by M. Jones, printer to the Commonwealth; by S. Pleasants, Jun. .. by T. Field, Petersburgh; and by the author, in the jail of Richmond .. [1801].Vol. 1: 184 p.; v. 2, pt. 1: viii, [1], 10-152 p.; v. 2, pt. 2: 96 p.Errors in paging: v. 2, pt. 2, p. 13 misnumbered 31.Errata notes: v. 1, p. 184; v. 2, pt. 1, p. [ii]; v. 2, pt. 2, p. [2].Signatures: v. 1, [A]p4s B-Zp4s; v. 2, pt. 1, [A]p4s B-Qp4s np4s R-Sp4s; v. 2, pt. 2, [A]p4s B-Mp4sEvans,Evans,Shaw & Shoemaker,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
The safety and effectiveness of different methods of ear wax removal: a systematic review and economic evaluation
No full textEar wax (cerumen) is a natural secretion produced to protect the inner ear from dirt and other fragments by moving these particles towards the outer ear. If this process does not happen properly, wax may build up causing blockage in the ear canal and the possibility of impaction. People with a build up of ear wax may suffer from hearing loss, discomfort and, on occasions, infection. It may present problems in assessing hearing, blocking the view of the ear drum during medical examination and interfering with the fitting or function of hearing aids. Although it is thought to affect between 2% and 6% of the population in the England and Wales, some groups may be at a higher risk, such as those using hearing aids or with small ear canals and/or skin conditions. Recurrence is thought to be high among some of these groups. The consequences of the build up of ear wax in the ear canal are thought to be a common reason for consultation and cost in general practice with over 2 million consultations per year in the NHS.Methods of removal of ear wax include drops, flushing with water in general practice, and removal with suction or probes in specialist clinics. The relative safety and benefits of these different methods of removal remains uncertain. This research will systematically review published and unpublished evidence on the clinical and cost effectiveness of different methods for the removal of ear wax. Where appropriate, it will develop an economic model using data from this systematic review and other relevant sources to estimate the relative costs and benefits of different methods. In addition, the project will provide recommendations for future research to try to help answer any remaining areas of uncertainty
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An essay on quick-lime, as a cement and as a manure. [electronic resource] : By James Anderson, LL.D. F.R.S. F.A.S. S. Author of "Essays relating to agriculture and rural affairs," 3 vols. 8vo, and several other performances. ...
No full textAlso issued as part of: Marshall, Charles. An introduction to the knowledge and practice of gardening, Boston : Etheridge for Nancrecde, 1799 (Evans 35770)."Books lately published by J. Nancrede .."--p. [117-120].Not in Evans. - Signatures: [A]p2s B-Kp6s Lp4sElectronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The commercial conduct of the United States of America considered, and the true interest thereof, attempted to be shewn [electronic resource] : by a citizen of New-York. [Two lines from Locke].
No full textSignatures: [A]p4s B-Cp4s (C3 verso, C4 blank)Evans,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
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