“The Sankhya Karika” Manuscript by Henry David Thoreau This manuscript from Thoreau was acquired in the late 80’s or early 90’s when Dr. John Belew (Provost at the time) was diligently expanding the ABL’s Nineteenth Century Collection. The manuscript had been inserted by…
Blanchard, Laman, editor; George Cruikshank, illustrator. George Cruikshank’s Omnibus. Illustrated with One Hundred Engravings on Steel and Wood. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. Housed in a slipcase with: A Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, editor; George Cruikshank, illustrator. George Cruikshank’s Table-Book. London: Published at the…
Tracts for the Times. By Members of the University of Oxford London: Printed for J.G. & F. Rivington; Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1836-40 Six volumes, with a second copy of volumes 1 and 3. Both copies of volume 1 and the second copy…
Unpublished Letter: Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua and John James Watson, 2 June 1820 Rare Item Analysis: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Letter and Its Significance by Crystal Wu This post shall spotlight Dorothy Wordsworth’s unpublished letter “1820, June 2, Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua Watson and John…
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (first edition, second issue 1798) Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, in two volumes (1800) Rare Item Analysis: by Allie Matherne This post will examine and describe the significance…
Victorian STEAM Victorians Institute Conference October 14-15, 2016 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Since its widespread adoption in the 1990s, the acronym “STEM” has focused political and public attention on investments in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. In response, numerous…
Letters: Tennyson to Roden Noel, 13 Feb. 1887 Tennyson to Sir Edwin Arnold, 25 March 1891 Description and Transcriptions: by Mackenzie Sarna In the first letter, Tennyson congratulates poet and essayist Roden Noel on his recently published volume (probably his edition of The…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems (second edition, 1797) Sibylline Leaves (first edition, 1817) Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The Pains of Sleep (first edition, 1816) Rare Item Analysis: Coleridge’s Original Intentions Seen through Rare Editions of His Poetry by Karoline DaVee The purpose of this post…
Nov. 13 Dr. Kacy Tillman (English, University of Tampa) will present “History’s Ellipses and the Diary of Deborah Norris Logan.” The talk traces silence as an absent presence in loyalist diaries-turned-biographies after the American Revolution in order to understand how and why people attempted…
