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Lullaby for eggs : a poem
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Victorian album of collages
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This album is composed of 12 original collages inserted into decorated paper-covered front and rear boards. Collages are made with paper, silk ribbons, flowers, dyed wool, shells, leaves, cut-outs from various printed sources, and lithographs. The collagist was likely an Irish Catholic young woman, either from or living in Avoca, Wicklow County, Ireland (there is a collage page with the title "Sweet Vale Avoca"). Each collage speaks to a different theme ranging from rural life, nature, a childhood home, childhood, youth, communion, perceptions of old age, and a haunted house. Each collage has a title and handwritten pasted-down captions, some coming from popular songs and verse including Thomas Moore's "The Meeting of the Waters." Housed in a slip case with gilt title "ALBUM ANGLAIS."
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John Fearnley collection on John and Elaine Steinbeck
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Letters between John Steinbeck, his wife Elaine, and John Fearnley, a director and casting director working for the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization at the time. Correspondence discusses the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream, which was based on Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thursday (1954); ideas for a new production; and Steinbeck's enjoyment of living in England while writing his last novel. A 1967 letter from Elaine Steinbeck describes the couple's life in Vietnam while John Steinbeck was working as a war correspondent there. Many letters incorporate nicknames the three devised on a trip during the Pipe Dream run: Inside Straight (John Steinbeck), Queen Radio (Elaine Steinbeck), and Small Change (John Fearnley). Some letters also include a Pigasus stamp, a flying pig motif Steinbeck used throughout his life as a symbol of himself. There is also one letter to Elaine Steinbeck from Richard Lewine, former managing director of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, advising her about John Fearnley's eulogy; and a fragment likely written by John Fearnley.
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Anatomical exercitations, concerning the generation of living creatures: : to which are added particular discourses, of births, and of conceptions, &c
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In his anatomical researches on the generation of animals, originally published in Latin in 1651, William Harvey (1658-1657) developed the first fundamentally new theory of generation since antiquity. Harvey's work represented a major advance in the study of animal reproduction, ranking with the works of Fabrizio and Malpighi. Contemporary theories of generation, based on the work of Aristotle and Galen, held that the fetus was formed by the action of semen on menstrual blood, but Harvey argued, based on his studies of developing chick and deer embryos, that all life arose from eggs (ex ovo omnia). This principle was of crucial importance in the history of embryology. Harvey further maintained, contrary to the prevailing belief in preformation, that the fetus developed gradually, a process that he termed "epigenesis."
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Jane Elizabeth Bayard Wilson letter to Caroline A. Bayard
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In her letter written from Monrovia, Liberia, Jane Elizabeth Bayard Wilson describes her life in Monrovia and her travels in Liberia, including a visit to New Georgia. She also mentions James Eden, a Black missionary who came to Liberia in 1833. The letter is addressed to her cousin Caroline A. Bayard in Philadelphia.
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John Burroughs letter to "Miss White" and poem
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John Burroughs wrote this letter to "Miss White" from his home in West Park, New York, talking about his poem "Waiting" (written in 1862). He explains that the poem reflected his future philosophy of life. Accompanying the letter is a handwritten copy of the poem in Burroughs' hand. Both items are glued on album pages.
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Elizabeth P. Hincks diary
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Mrs. Hincks commenced her diary on June 12, 1868, upon advice of General E. R. S. Canby's wife who told her that she wished she had kept a diary during her travels as an army wife. The first portion of the diary recaps the events since the Hincks' wedding till June of 1868. The remainder covers the family's trip to New York, Boston, Cambridge, Bangor, and Buckport, Me., Col. Hinck's hometown, in the summer and late fall of 1868. Mrs. Hincks recounted her daily life -- reading, sewing, shopping, paying visits, attending theater and lectures in Boston and New York, (including an exhibit of Frederick Church's Niagara). There are also accounts of a Republican meeting and parade in Bangor that featured her husband along with Daniel Sickles and James Harrison Wilson as guests of honor, public appearances and speaking engagement of Edward W. Hincks who was campaigning for Benjamin F. Butler, and the election day of 1868 in Boston. The last portion of the diary, from the late November on, describe the return to Goldsboro, passing the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Petersburg, and the life in camp.
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