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1666019th century Handwritten Composition book filled with handwritten poems and verses from a young lady in Lancaster County Pennsylvania 1880-1883. Original cloth boards. 8 1/4 x 7 in. "Compositions" embossed on front cover. 100 pages. Each page filled with handwritten poems and reflections including writing about attending school and nostalgia for being a student. "Mary A. Dunlap Willow Grove School 1880" written on first page. Original poems such as "Away to School" and "The School House on the Hill" "Fond memory paints the scenes of other years Green be their memory still And bright amid those joyous scenes appear the school house on the hill. // Cho. Oh I never can forget no I never can forget The old school house on the hill. // There hands the swing upon the maple-tree Where you and I once swung; There flows the spring forever flowing free As when we both were young. // There climb the vines and there the berries grow which once we prised so high; And there the ripe nuts glisten in the glow Of rich October sky."<br/><br/>Includes original history reports on American Literature and The Colonial Period 1640-1760. "The Colonial Age was mainly one of fighting and manual industry.The drama then the most popular form of literature in England was not tolerated by the Puritans and did not flourish therefore in America. Libraries were few and the means of communication but scant; hence the age was not favorable to literary development and the growth of American literature was slow indeed." Includes list of prominent American writers including: Thomas Jefferson John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Excerpts from several of Shakespeare's most famous works including Twelfth Night "Music/ That strain again; it had a dying fall; Oh it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets Stealing and giving odor" and As You Like It. "Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in its head". Seven drafted letters at end of book regarding dinner invitations letters of condolence and a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly. Last several pages are ledger book of loans and debts. Brown stain in upper inside corner of book affecting last 40 pages. Very good condition. unknown books
16537Friendship album of young lady students from 1862-1864 at Golden Hill Seminary in Bridgeport CT durin the Civil war. "Landscape Album." New York: Published by Leavitt & Allen circa 1862. Original red leather boards. 8 ½ x 7 in. Embossed front and back cover gilt-edged pages and gilt detail on front cover and spine. 67 pages. Includes 4 full-page landscape engravings of Smyrna Albany Bedford Springs PA and Zarapha the Ancient Sarepta in addition to 1 engraving on the title page. Includes 86 handwritten notes inscriptions and autographs from fellow students. 2 small portrait photos approx. 1 ½ x 1 in. and ¾ x ½ in. are pasted into book with note and signature. Some foxing and toning on engraving pages. Very good condition.<br/><br/>Signature and memento album kept by a student named Mary while studying at the Golden Hill Seminary in Bridgeport CT. Almost every page is filled with handwritten warm wishes of friendship pithy phrases and short poems such as "Not like the rose shall our friendship wither but like the evergreeen live forever" and "Our school soon will end. And I am going away. But try to remember your friend at some far distant day." "Is there no other tie that binds Has love the only claim Yes there is one that binds us fast And friendship is its name." Many of the inscriptions are dated to months in late spring or winter when academic semester would conclude and students would travel to their hometowns to visit with family. "Dear Mary May guardian angels their soft wings display To guard my friend from every dangerous way May health and happiness your steps attend May you always have an never want a friend In every state of life may you most happy be And when you're at a distance thing of me." "In future years when thou shall see Thou lines that I have penned Oh then may memory bring to view The image of your loving friend." "Something you wished me to write So something it shall be And when you think of something Think of me." "As gold more splendid from the fire appears So "Friendship" brightens by the length of years." "Twine thy brow with a lofty wreath with a wreath made not of glittering jewels from some far off mine." Some classmates listed their hometowns along with their autographs including places as far away as New York City and even Canada. The Golden Hill Seminary was founded in 1856 as a boarding school that would provide a moral literary and domestic education for young ladies. An extensive collection of autographs notes and well-wishes from classmates at a boarding school for young ladies. <br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. This document dates only from 14 years after Seneca Falls. unknown books
17021Women Education Handwritten Composition book of young lady filled with handwritten poems essays and stories. 111 handwritten pages. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" and dated "9-6-75" on first page. Entries date to 1875. Original boards. 9 x 7.5 in. Decorative green and purple flower design on covers page edges gilt. Includes several verses from Shakespeare including a few lines from A Midsummer's Night Dream: "Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger At whose approach ghosts wandering here and there Troop home to churchyards." Includes an excerpt about "The Moon" from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost: "Rising in clouded majesty at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Notably women writers are also represented in the composition book. She includes "Continuance of Moral Education" by Harriet Martineau the British social theorist who is often cited as the first female sociologist. Also includes material originally written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter Scott and Scottish writer John Wilson pen name Christopher North. Copying essays poetry stories and compositions was the standard teaching tool throughout the 19th century. The exercise taught handwriting spelling grammar knowledge of literature and other subjects of the material and elocution. This composition book is an excellent example of a young lady's schoolwork in the mid-19th century. Spine is damaged with losses. 4 pages have stray marks or scribbles in margins from a later hand in blue ink not affecting text. Good to very good condition. unknown books
17020Women Education Handwritten Composition book of young lady filled with handwritten poems and essays. 119 handwritten pages including a 2-page index at the conclusion. Entries dated 1873-1874. Original boards. Floral decorative pattern in white blue and gold on both covers page edges gilt. 9 x 7.5 in. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" on first page. Filled with handwritten poems and essays including work by Edgar Allen Poe James Montgomery William Wordsworth Charles Dickens Elizabeth Browning Shakespeare Washington Irving and Oliver Goldsmith. Also short fiction such as "The Monk" part of Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy first published in 1765 and reprinted several times in the 19th century for teaching elocution.  Copying essays poetry stories and compositions was the standard teaching tool throughout the 19th century. The exercise taught handwriting spelling grammar knowledge of literature and other subjects of the material and elocution. The handwritten notebook also contains scientific material including a composition on "The Eye" investigating the properties of the human eye and eyes of other animals and animals that have no eyes such as "the starfishes have are mere sensitive points dimly conscious of forms." Also historical material including a composition on the Ancient Greek city Thermopile and a letter from Protestant Reformer Martin Luther to his son. This composition book is an excellent example of a young lady's schoolwork in the mid-19th century. 13 pages have stray marks or scribbles from a later hand in purple blue and orange ink; most marks are in margins and do not affect text legibility. Vertical tear to first page at top left edge along binding. Losses and damage to spine. Good to very good condition. unknown books
19353708Chicago: The International Council of Religious Education 1935. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed wrappers; 28pp. Fresh and unmarked; about Fine. Christian Quest Pamphlet number 19. Anti-war instruction for Christian youth. The International Council of Religious Education unknown books
1679045188Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano 1679. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf heavily worn at the corners recently neatly respined. Browning to page edges otherwise clean internally. A nice Greek/Latin edition of this Sixth century Byzantine history. viii 384pp. Lacking front and rear blanks. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045188. <br/><br/> E Theatro Sheldoniano hardcover books
1987262853San Francisco: Harvey Milk AIDS Education Fund 1987. 12-panel brochure 4x5.5 inchestext in Spanish illustrated with cartoons on AIDS prevention very good in brown and white covers. The brochure originally handed out at the Gay Freedom Day Parade was reissued with changes reflecting changing knowledge of AIDS every year for five years. Harvey Milk AIDS Education Fund unknown books
