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R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, July 21, 1896
No full textResponse letter from R. Williams to Susan M. Wierman [sometimes spelled Weirman] following up on a visit from photographer M. Wooley, presumably to snap photographs of Susan and the Lundy home to accompany Williams' biographical essay on Lundy. Williams sends along Wooley's letters and requests additional information from Ms. Wierman about the life and times of some meeting houses significant in the life and times of her father, anti-slavery activist and abolitionist periodical publisher Benjamin Lundy. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, March 23, 1896
No full textLetter from R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, spelled Weirman by R. Williams), daughter of Benjamin Lundy, concerning Williams' plan to visit Mrs. Wierman to take photographs for a forthcoming article on the life and times of Lundy, to be published in a Chicago newspaper. Williams describes previous visits to Wierman, and makes notes of the resources, publications and repositories he has used in compiling his study of Lundy thus far. He also makes requests of Mrs. Wierman for a sketch of recollections about life with her father and her own involvement in the abolition movement. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
R. Williams letter to Mrs. Susan M.Weirman, September 9, 1895
No full textShort note from Lundy biographer R. Williams to Mrs. Susan M. Wierman (here, "Wiederman") concerning Williams' proposed return visits to Wierman's home in Clear Creek, Illinois. Williams explains that he had intended to visit with a "Col. Plumb"; but Plumb is elderly and had fallen ill. Williams proposes hoping to visit solo in months to come, and asks after the dates of the local Friends Quarterly Meeting. Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was a prominent Quaker abolitionist best known for his development of abolitionist periodicals. His Genius of Universal Emancipation was first published in 1821 from his home in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and enjoyed a wide circulation across the antebellum United States. In the 1820s, the young William Lloyd Garrison came to work for The Genius. Benjamin Lundy traveled widely seeking subscriptions to The Genius, giving talks about the anti-slavery movement, and observing and documenting the conditions of enslaved people across the Americas. He was also involved in the establishment of freed slave colonies in Mexico
Synthesis and coordination chemistry of hybrid polydentate and halide-substituted stibines and bismuthines
No full textHalostibines and halobismuthines EMenX3-n (E = Sb, Bi; X = Cl, Br; n = 1, 2) display both Lewis acidic and Lewis basic characteristics. A series of adducts with neutral N- and O-donor ligands, [EMeX2(L)] (L = 2,2’-bipyridine, 1,10-phenanthroline, tetramethylethylenediamine) and [SbMeX2(L)2] (L = Ph3PO, Me3PO) were isolated and characterised by X-ray crystallography, 1H (and where appropriate 31P{1H}) NMR spectroscopy and microanalysis. Each complex is monomeric, displaying a distorted square pyramidal geometry around E, with two basal cis halides and the Me group apical. Combination of EMe2X with neutral ligands results in rearrangement at E to yield [EMeX2(L)] or [SbMeX2(L)2] once again as the isolable products. Reaction of SbMenBr3-n (n = 1, 2) with transition metal acceptors gives complexes in which the halostibines behave as Lewis bases. Examination of trends in the crystallographic and spectroscopic data of [M(CO)5(SbMenBr3-n)] (M = Cr, W; n = 1-3) from this work and the literature concluded that the halostibines have a significant ?-acceptor ability, which increases with increased halide substitution. Other transition metal complexes with L = SbMe2Br, [CpFe(CO)2(L)][BF4], [CpFe(CO)(L)2]Br (Cp = cyclopentadienyl) and [Mn(CO)6-n(L)n][CF3SO3] (n = 1, 3) were isolated and contain hypervalent, Sb···O, Sb···F or Sb···Br contacts between ions. Reaction of BiMe2Br with transition metal acceptors results in rearrangement at Bi; the only bismuthine complexes isolated contained the BiMe3 ligand.The hybrid distibine S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2 and its methiodide [S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe3)2][I]2 were synthesised and the X-ray structure of the latter determined. Systematic investigations into transition metal complexes of this and other hybrid distibine ligands were undertaken. These ligands coordinate in a bidentate bridging mode in the 1:2 complexes [{CpFe(CO)2}2(L)][BF4] (L = O{(CH2)2SbR2}2 (R = Me, Ph), MeN(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2, S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2) and [{M(CO)5}2(L)] (M = Cr, W; L = O{(CH2)2SbR2}2 (R = Me, Ph)), a bidentate chelating mode in [M(CO)4(L)] (M = Cr, W; L = O{(CH2)2SbMe2}2, MeN(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2) or a tridentate mode in [M(CO)3(S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2)] (M = Cr, Mo) and [Mn(CO)3(L)] [CF3SO3] (L = MeN(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2, S(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)2). In the latter examples the central hetero-atom of the ligand is coordinated to the transition metal centre. In those cases where it is not, hypervalent interactions between this hetero-atom and one or both coordinated Sb atoms are sometimes, but not always, observed. Comparisons have been drawn with the chemistry of the corresponding hybrid dibismuthine ligands. The hybrid tristibine ligand N(CH2-2-C6H4SbMe2)3 was synthesised and preliminary investigations of its coordination chemistry carried out. It acts as a tridentate ligand via the three Sb donors in [Mn(CO)3(L)][CF3SO3] and [Cu4Br4(L)2], with the ligand fixed in a propeller-like conformation. In the latter, a Cu2Br4 core with a short Cu···Cu distance is observed. [Cu(L)] [BF4] was isolated, in which tetradentate coordination of the ligand has been proposed.Transition metal complexes were characterised by 1H and 13C{1H} NMR spectroscopy and microanalysis, and where appropriate infrared and 55Mn or 63Cu NMR spectroscopies and mass spectrometry. The majority of these complexes have also been structurally characterised by single crystal X-ray diffraction
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Benjamin R. Civiletti writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia about the Hispanic Advisory Committee
No full textBenjamin R. Civiletti, Attorney General, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Founder of the American G.I. Forum, expressing his regret that Garcia was unable to attend the initial meeting of the Hispanic Advisory Committee. He explains that the members decided to formalize the Working Group into an advisory committee and when the next meeting is scheduled
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Benjamin R. Civiletti thanks Dr. Hector P. Garcia for his recommendation of Filimon Villarreal
No full textBenjamin R. Civiletti, Attorney General, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Founder of the American G.I. Forum of the U.S., thanking him for his recommendation of Filimon Villarreal for appointment to the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
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Source Data for Michael S. Dimitriyev, Benjamin R. Greenvall, Rejoy Matthew, & Gregory M. Grason, "Not even metastable: Cubic double-diamond in diblock copolymer melts"
No full textSource data and code to reproduce the results published in Michael S. Dimitriyev, Benjamin R. Greenvall, Rejoy Matthew, & Gregory M. Grason, "Not even metastable: Cubic double-diamond in diblock copolymer melts"N
Walter Benjamin, a Methodological Contribution
No full textThis article examines the work and philosophy of Walter Benjamin as
an important source of information for international relations (IR) and
International Political Sociology (IPS) scholars, particularly in light of
his methodological contributions, which could provide important
ground for movements such as the aesthetic turn in IR and everyday
life ⁄ popular culture studies within IR and IPS. Benjamin’s contributions
are examined in light of his most controversial, albeit unfinished, project—
The Arcades Project, a recently published volume that focuses on a
selection of documents from the Benjamin archive; and a study by Howard
Caygill on Benjamin’s attempt to create a ‘‘new philosophy,’’ and
along with it, a new methodology for studying ‘‘experience.’’ The article
focuses on three main elements that stand at the basis of Benjamin’s
unique methodology: (1) his process of selecting the object of study;
(2) his treatment of temporality and processes of change ⁄ history; and
(3) his focus on the visual as key to escaping the limitations of
traditional ‘‘philosophical’’ text
Die Unabgeschlossenheit des Vergangenen : Erinnerung, Wiederholung und Neubeginn bei Walter Benjamin und Jacques Derrida
No full textWahre Erinnerung erinnert nach Benjamin nicht nur vergangene Fakten, sondern auch das Nichtrealisierte und Unterdrückte; Leidenserinnerung gilt einem Vergangenen, das nicht abgeschlossen ist, sondern eine Zukunft hat. Ähnlich meint Dekonstruktion eine Lektüre, die das Überlieferte aufbricht, um im Gesagten das Nichtgesagte zu entziffern und das Ausgeschlossene zur Sprache zu bringen. True memory, according to Benjamin, does not only remember past facts, but also that which remains unrealized and suppressed. The memory of suffering then, is devoted to a past that is not completed, but has a future. Similarly, deconstruction means a reading which breaks open the tradition to decipher the unsaid in the said and bring the excluded to speech
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Benjamin R. Civiletti thanks Dr. Hector P. Garcia in regards to his appointment to Attorney General of the United States and Adolph B. Saenz asks for Garcia's support
No full textBenjamin R. Civiletti, Attorney General, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia thanking him for his support and agreeing to serve with him in his new appointment as Attorney General of the United States. Adolph B. Saenz writes to Garcia asking to support him in seeking the position Assistant Commissioner for Border Patrol at I.N.S
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