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Sarah Willis letter to Abigail Matthews, May 12, 1801
No full textThe letter from Sarah Willis to her daughter, Abigail (Willis) Matthews in 1801 provides a detailed list of current events in Barre, Massachusetts. Her daughter had moved to the Northwest Territory and the only way to get occasional letters delivered was to direct them to Pittsburgh, the closest post to the Northwest Territory to the west. In her letter, Willis discusses topics like recent visitors to Barre, family news, recent deaths and a future meetinghouse-raising.
Abigail Matthews was the first wife of Dr. Increase Matthews (spelling later changed to Mathews), who served as the first physician in Muskingum County and was a nephew of General Rufus Putnam. The couple had two daughters. Melissa is discussed in this letter, and their second daughter, also named Abigail, would be born in June of the following year. Abigail (the mother) appears to have died from complications during this birth on June 11, 1802
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No full textSarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie perform at the White House
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Sarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie at the White House, Part I
No full textSarah Vaughan and Dizzy Gillespie perform at the White House, after introductory remarks from President Jimmy Carter
Letters to John Downes and R.H. Willis from Sarah Benson Walker, Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1859
Get PDFLetters from Sarah Benson Walker to John Downes and R.H. Willis in response to letters of sympathy following the death of her husband George Washington Walker
Willis and Sarah (last name unknown); Sarah and Alice (last name unknown)
No full textFrom the Photograph Collection. Snapshot of Willis and Sarah,1923; Snapshot of Sarah and Alice, 1923.https://athenacommons.muw.edu/mdl-1900-1949/1108/thumbnail.jp
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
First person - Sarah Alghamdi
No full textABSTRACT
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sarah Alghamdi is first author on ‘ Contribution of model organism phenotypes to the computational identification of human disease genes’, published in DMM. Sarah is a PhD student in the lab of Robert Hoehndorf at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, investigating artificial intelligence, specifically knowledge representation and reasoning over biomedical data
Portrait of the English anthropologist Gregory Bateson, New Guinea, 1929 [picture] /
No full textPart of the collection: Sarah Chinnery photographic collection of New Guinea, England and Australia.; Gregory Bateson, famous English anthropologist, New Guinea research in Bainings and Sepik, eventually lived and worked in the United States. Author of "Naven" and other works. -- Accompanying notes from family.; Inscription: "1929" -- On label. "Gregory Bateson, 'Naven' and other works" -- In red ink.; Sarah Chinnery no.: Part 2.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4506462
Portrait of the anthropologist Professor Hortense Powdermaker from Queens, New York, in New Guinea, 1929 [picture] /
No full textPart of the collection: Sarah Chinnery photographic collection of New Guinea, England and Australia.; Inscriptions: "Professor Hortense Powdermaker, (Queens N.Y., U.S.A.) 'Life in Lesso [i.e. Lesu]' and other works" --In red ink. "1929" -- In pencil.; Professor Hortense Powdermaker, American anthropologist 1929 research in Lesu, New Ireland, New Guinea. Author of "Life in Lesu" and other works. -- Accompanying notes from family.; Sarah Chinnery no.: Part 2.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4506463
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