The John Harvard library

An account of Alcott's stint as a nurse for wounded soldiers in Washington, D. C. during the winter of American Civil War in 1862-1863.

Wealth, poverty, trusts, relations of capital and labor, colonial possessions, imperialism, democracy in England, etc. – – A.L.A.Catalog 1904

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is generally considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court. In more than 2,000 opinions, Holmes delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, particularly in the area of civil liberties and judicial restraint. In The Common Law, the ideas and judicial theory of Holmes can be studied and appreciated.

"Reproduced by photo-offset from a copy of the original edition of 1902 [published by Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York]"

Synopsis: Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a woman more unusual still. Born in England and brought up in the household of the Earl of Lincoln where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward, Anne Bradstreet sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1630, shortly after her marriage at sixteen to Simon Bradstreet. For the next forty years she lived in the New England wilderness, raising a family of eight, combating sickness and hardship, and writing the verse that made her, as the poet Adrienne Rich says in her Foreword to this edition, "the first non-didactic American poet, the first to give an embodiment to American nature, the first in whom personal intention appears to precede Puritan dogma as an impulse to verse." All Anne Bradstreet's extant poetry and prose is published here with modernized spelling and punctuation.^ This volume reproduces the second edition of Several Poems, brought out in Boston in 1678, as well as the contents of a manuscript first printed in 1857. Adrienne Rich's Foreword offers a sensitive and illuminating critique of Anne Bradstreet both as a person and as a writer, and the Introduction, scholarly notes, and appendices by Jeannine Hensley make this an authoritative edition. Adrienne Rich observes, "Intellectual intensity among women gave cause for uneasiness" at this period - a fact borne out by the lines in the Prologue to the early poems: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits." The broad scope of Anne Bradstreet's own learning and reading is most evident in the literary and historical allusions of The Tenth Muse, the first edition of her poems, published in London in 1650.^ Her later verse and her prose meditations strike a more personal note, however, and reveal both a passionate religious sense and a depth of feeling for her husband, her children, the fears and disappointments she constantly faced, and the consoling power of nature. Imbued with a Puritan striving to turn all events to the glory of God, these writings bear the mark of a woman of strong spirit, charm, delicacy, and wit: in their intimate and meditative quality Anne Bradstreet is established as a poet of sensibility and permanent stature.

Bibliographical footnotes. Causes of the American Civil War / John L. Motley -- Right of secession / Joel Parker -- Great drama; an appeal to Maryland / John P. Kennedy -- The War : its cause and remedy; immediate emanipation : the only wise and safe mode / Lewis Tappan -- Letter of Archbishop Hughes to Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina / John J. Hughes -- Brownson on the rebellion / Orestes A. Brownson -- Captain Maury's letter on American affairs. Also the address of Hon. John C. Breckinridge to the people of Kentucky / Matthew F. Maury & John C. Breckinridge -- Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus under the Constitution / Horace Binney -- Personal liberty and martial law: a review of some pamphlets of the day / Edward Ingersoll -- War for the Union; a lecture / Wendell Phillips -- Tracts for the times. Courage! / Mary A. Dodge -- Contest in America / John Stuart Mill -- Via media : a peaceful and permanent settlement of the slavery question / Emma Willard --^ Relation of the national government to revolted citizens defined / Anna E. Carroll -- How a free people conduct a long war : a chapter from English history / Charles J. Stillé --Facts for the people -- Executive power / Benjamin R. Curtis -- The Commander-in-Chief; a defence upon legal grounds of the Proclamation of Emancipation / Grosvenor P. Lowrey -- Desert and the promised land / Edward E. Hale -- Unconditional loyalty / Henry W. Bellows -- The Constitution. Addresses of Prof. Morse, Mr. Geo Ticknor Curtis, and Mr. S.J. Tilden, at the organization / Samuel F.B. Morse [et al.] -- About the war. Plain words to plain people by a plain man / Ezra M. Hunt. Vol.2. The great Union meeting. Held at Indianapolis, February 26th, 1863. Speeches of Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Gen. Samuel F. Carey, of Ohio, and others -- Copperheads under the heel of an Illinois farmer -- The future of the North-West : in connection with the scheme of reconstruction without New England / Robert D. Owen --^ Letter of a Republican...and Prof. Morse's reply... / Edward N. Crosby & S.F.B. Morse -- General Washington and General Jackson on Negro soldiers / Henry C. Baird -- Bible view of slavery / John H. Hopkins -- To churchmen -- The great Civil War in America / Clement L. Vallandigham --Truth from an honest man / Abraham Lincoln -- Reply to President Lincoln's letter / John V.L. Pruyn -- A few words in behalf of the loyal women of the United States -- The draft, or, conscription reviewed by the people -- Daniel O'Connell and the Committee of the Irish Repeal Association of Cincinnati -- Rebel conditions of peace and the mechanics of the South -- Our domestic relations : or, how to treat the rebel states / Charles Sumner -- Ye book of copperheads / Charles G. Leland & Henry P. Leland -- "Let us reason together" / George F. Comstock -- Abraham Lincoln -- The President's policy / James R. Lowell -- Our burden and our strength / David A. Wells -- Growler's income tax / Timothy S. Arthur --^ The Lincoln catechism -- The great surrender to the rebels in arms. The armistice -- A few plain words with the rank and file of the Union armies -- Report of the Judge Advocate General, on the "Order of American Knights," or "Sons of Liberty" / U.S. Bureau of Military Justice -- Great speech...at New London, Conn. / Robert C. Winthrop -- Hear Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton / George H. Pendleton --Lincoln or McClellan. Appeal to Germans in America / Francis Lieber -- The coward's convention / Charles A. Bristed -- Abraham Lincoln; his life and its lessons / Joseph P. Thompson.

The Gates Ajar is a religious novel by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (later Elizabeth Phelps Ward) that was immensely popular following its publication and was the second best-selling religious novel of the 19th century. The novel is presented like a diary by its main protagonist, Mary Cabot, who mourns the death of her brother Royal. Much of the plot is presented as a dialogue about the afterlife between the two characters. The novel represents heaven as being similar to Earth, but better. In contrast with traditions of Calvinism, Phelps's version of heaven is corporeal where the dead have "spiritual bodies", live in houses, raise families, and participate in various activities.