Autograph manuscript, containing meditations on the Psalms, Trumbulls own metrical versions of certain Psalms, notes from reading and notes on the life and government of Venice. Prefaced by an introduction which is partly autobiographical.
Description:
Unnumbered pages
Subject (Geographic):
Venice (Italy) --History
Subject (Topic):
Bible. English O.T. Psalms --Paraphrases and English poetry
Typescript, carbon, of a memoir written by James John Hagerman for his sons, transcribed by his son, Percy Hagerman. The memoir discusses Hagermans early life in Michigan and student days at the University of Michigan; his experiences as a steamboat clerk
Description:
John James Hagerman was born near Port Hope, Ontario, in 1838. In 1843 his family moved to Newport (now Marine City), Michigan.
BEIN JWJ Zan B174 927Me: James Weldon Johnson's inscribed copy., Blanks not digitized., and Publisher's advertisement for other works by Marcel Sauvage laid in.
Publisher:
Kra,
Subject (Name):
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
Subject (Topic):
African American entertainers --France --Biography
Autograph manuscript, containing notes and verses from classical writers, legal notes arranged alphabetically, and an autobiographical ""Essay of a Happy Life."" The earlier part of this manuscript was written while studying for his matriculation at Oxford.
Autobiography given by Noorthouck to Thomas Bell of Barnwell near Oundle; writes of his grandfathers suicide, his fathers drinking, his beginnings in bookselling, friendships with William Strahan and Ralph Griffiths of the Monthly Review, etc.
Description:
Bookplates of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st marquis of Crewe (1858-1945), and Clive Milner-Coates. and Five blank flyleaves at back not reproduced.
Front endpaper torn out. Author's inscription to Gifford Pinchot, Nov. 17 '04, Washington, D.C. and Includes reminiscences of life on the Pacific coast in the fifties and in Arkansas during Reconstruction.
Subject (Name):
Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928--Portraits, Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar--Presentation inscription to G. Pinchot., Pinchot, Gifford,--1865-1946--Presentation inscription from M.W. Gibbs., and Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Subject (Topic):
African American judges., African Americans--Biography., and Slavery--United States.
MS note in ink and pencil, Notebook and first gathering foliated consecutively., One quarto notebook and two sewn folio gatherings of 44 pages each housed in two folders., Some errors in foliation., and Title revised and pasted in inside front cover of notebook.
Subject (Name):
House of Refuge (New York, NY)
Subject (Topic):
African American prisoners--New York (State), Juvenile delinquents --New York (State) --New York, Prison discipline--United States--History--19th century, Prison life--New York (State)--19th century, and Reformatories --New York (State) --New York
