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The well-spent hour / by Eliza Lee Follen
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot,
203 p., [2] leaves of plates :
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Unsung : unheralded narratives of American slavery & abolition / The Schomburg Center for Research i

xxix, 617 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9780143136088

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American women writers : a critical reference guide from colonial times to the present / edited by L

5 volumes ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0804431515

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The poetry of slavery : an Anglo-American anthology, 1764-1865 / [edited by] Marcus Wood.

lxi, 704 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0198187092

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Records of our national life : American history at the National Archives / edited by Anne-Catherine

320 p. :
ISBN/ISSN: 9781904832713 (hardcover : alk. paper)





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Made-up stories / by Mrs. Follen. With illustrations by Billings.
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot,
95 p. :
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Poetical works
Wordsworth, William,
xlii, 937 p.
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The American renaissance in New England. Third series / edited by Wesley T. Mott.

xxiii, 533 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0787646520
Louis Agassiz -- Washington Allston -- John Bartlett -- Cyrus Augustus Bartol -- Francis Bowen -- Edward Tyrrel Channing -- William Ellery Channing -- Francis James Child -- James Freeman Clarke -- Caroline Healey Dall -- Richard Henry Dana Jr. -- Dorothea Lynde Dix -- John Sullivan Dwight -- Edward Everett -- Cornelius Conway Felton -- James T. Fields -- Charles Follen -- Eliza Lee (Cabot) Follen -- Convers Francis -- William Henry Furness -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Asa Gray -- Horatio Greenough -- Edward Everett Hale -- Richard Hildreth -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Julia Ward Howe -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- James Russell Lowell -- Horace Mann -- John Lothrop Motley -- Andrews Norton -- Charles Eliot Norton -- John Gorham Palfrey -- Theodore Parker -- Francis Parkman -- Wendell Phillips -- William Hickling Prescott -- Sampson Reed -- George Ripley -- Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber -- Jared Sparks -- William Wetmore Story -- Charles Sumner -- George Ticknor -- Henry Ware Jr. -- William Ware -- Joseph Emerson Worcester -- Philosophic Thought in Boston.

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Moms for hire : 8 steps to kickstart your next career / Deborah Jelin Newmyer ; foreword by Kathleen
Newmyer, Deborah Jelin,
ix, 235 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9781510705692

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The works of Charles Follen, with a memoir of his life [microform]
Follen, Charles,
5 v. :
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Sermons -- Lectures on moral philosophy. Fragment of a work on psychology -- On Schiller's life and dramas -- Miscellaneous writings: On the future state of man. History. Inaugural discourse. Funeral oration on Gaspar Spurzheim. Address on slavery. Franklin lecture. Religion and the church. Peace and war

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The poems and songs of Robert Burns / with introd., notes, and glossary.
Burns, Robert,
574 p., 1 leaf of plates ;
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American antislavery writings : colonial beginnings to emancipation / James G. Basker, editor.

xli, 963 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 9781598531961

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The skeptic [microform] By the author.
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot,
143 p.
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Selections from the writings of Fenelon. With a memoir of his life. By Mrs. Follen.
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-,
xiv p., 2 L., [3]-329 p.
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French women poets of nine centuries : the distaff and the pen / selected and translated by Norman R

xlvi, 1182 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9780801888045


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Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literatu

10 volumes :
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Nursery rhymes -- The boys and the frogs -- The dog and his shadow -- The fox and the crow -- The boy and the nettle -- The ass in the lion's skin -- The frog who wished to be as big as an ox -- A thought ; The swing ; The sun's travels / The gnat and the bull -- The hare and the tortoise -- A riddle -- The fox and the stork -- The lion and the mouse -- The old man and his sons -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Singing / Tom Thumb -- The shepherd and the wolves -- The Rock-a-By Lady / The wind and the sun -- The wolf and the crane -- Lullaby / The little old woman and her pig -- Silver Locks and the three bears -- The cow ; Looking forward / The ladybird and the fly / The two travelers -- Rain / The two travelers and the oyster -- System / Hop-o'-my-thumb -- My bed is my boat / Robert Louis Stevenson -- At the seaside ; Foreign lands / The lark and the young ones -- Little blue pigeon / The dog in the manger -- The fox and the grapes -- The three little pigs -- Little birdie / The cat and the chestnuts -- The land of Counterpane / The cock and the horses -- The brown thrush / The hardy tin soldier / The bat and the two weasels -- Marching song / Jack and the beanstalk -- Bed in summer / The goose that laid the golden eggs -- Jack the giant-killer -- Block city / The mice and the cat -- From a railway carriage ; Fairy bread / The town mouse and the country mouse -- A riddle -- Old Gaelic lullaby -- Sleep, baby, sleep -- The pea blossom / Hansel and Grethel / The lion, the fox and the ass -- Cinderella -- Seein' things / Eugene Field -- A riddle -- Norse lullaby / The three tasks / Where go the boats? / The snow maiden -- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / The twin brothers / Industry and Sloth -- Whole duty of children / The tree / Young night thought / The drummer / Stop, stop, pretty water / Beauty and the beast -- The horse and the stag -- The owl and the pussy cat / Time to rise / The enchanted stag / Keepsake mill ; Foreign children / The golden bird / Lady Button Eyes / The wonderful gifts -- The fox, the wolf, and the horse -- The flax / The duel / The bald knight -- Atalanta's race / Autumn fires / "Something" / The fairies / The brother and sister -- The reaper and the flowers / The sands of Dee / Mercy to animals / The ugly duckling / Baucis and Philemon -- The wind / Little brown hands / Whittington and his cat -- The wolf and the lamb -- The story of Joseph

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Essential documents of American history. Volume 1 : from colonial times to the Civil War / edited by

xvii, 497 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0486797309

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Ideas and American foreign policy : a reader / edited by Andrew J. Bacevich.

xv, 526 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9780190645397
"A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) / "Theopolis Americana" (1709) / "Religion and Patriotism the Constituents of a Good Soldier" (1755) / "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" (1775) / "Common Sense" (1776) / "The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor" (1783) / "The Federalist No. 11" (1787) / "Farewell Address" (1796) / "Third Annual Message" (1803) / "Speech on Independence Day" (1821) / "The Monroe Doctrine" (1823) / "On Indian Removal" (1830) / "Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians" (1830) / "Letter to Congress" (1836) / "The Triumph of Liberty in France" (1830) / "Conduct of Foreign Affairs by the American Democracy," Democracy in America (1835) / "A Letter to the Honorable Henry Clay" (1837) / "The Great Nation of Futurity," The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (November 1839) / "Annexation," The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (July-August 1845) / "Our Territory on the Pacific," Brooklyn Daily Eagle (July 7, 1846) / "On the Mexican War" (1847) / "The War with Mexico" (1848) / "Letter to the Emperor of Japan" (1853) / "A Broadway Pageant," Leaves of Grass (1860) / "Gettysburg Address" (1863) / "Manifest Destiny," Harper's New Monthly Magazine (March 1885) / Our Country (1885) / "The United States Looking Outward," The Atlantic Monthly (December 1890) / "The Benefits of War," North American Review (December 1891) / "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) / "The March of the Flag" (1898) / "On Empire and the Philippines" (1898) / "The White Man's Burden," New York Sun (February 10, 1899) / "Expansion," Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His Countrymen (1899) / "Democracy or Militarism" (1899) / "Americanism versus Imperialism," North American Review (January 1899) / "In Support of an American Empire" (1900) / "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" (1900) / "Imperialism (Flag of an Empire)" (1900) / "First Open Door Note" (1899) / "The Platt Amendment" (1901) / "Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine" (1904) / Promise of American Life (1909) / Valor of Ignorance (1909) / "The Moral Equivalent of War," McClure's Magazine (August 1910) / "Dollar Diplomacy" (1912) / "Speech in Philadelphia" (1915) / "Preamble" (1915) / "Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter," Mother Earth (December 1915) / "Democracy of Business" (1916) / "Peace Without Victory" (1917) / "War Message" (1917) / "Against Entry into War" (1917) / "War with Germany" (1917) / "Over There" (1917) / "Address on Flag Day" (1917) / "The State" (1918) / "Canton, Ohio Anti- War Speech" (1918) / "League of Nations Speech" (1919) / "Pueblo, Colorado Speech" (1919) / "Opposing the League of Nations" (1919) / "The League of Nations" (1919) / "Report of the Overman Committee" (1919) / "Introduction" to Lothrop Stoddard, Rising Tide of Color (1921) / "The Conference on Limitation of Armament" (1921) / Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) -- "Letter to Senator Borah" (1932) / Merchants of Death (1934) / War Is a Racket (1935) / "Chatauqua Speech" (1936) / "Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels,"Harper's (September 1939) / "Neutrality and War" (1939) / "Fireside Chat" (1940) / "Step by Step--The War," Social Justice (September 2,1940) -- "Statement of Policy" (1941) / "Des Moines Speech" (1941) / "The Four Freedoms" (1941) / "The American Century," Life (February 17, 1941) / U.S. Foreign Policy : Shield of the Republic (1943) /

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The Civil War : the first year told by those who lived it / edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W.

xxv, 814 pages ;
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Calling a Secession Convention, November 1860. What Shall the South Carolina Legislature Do? November 3, 1860 / "Alarms from the South" : Illinois, November 1860. Memoranda Regarding Abraham Lincoln, November 5-6, 1860 / The Threat of Secession, November 1860. Going to Go, November 9, 1860 / The Need for Southern Cooperation, November 1860 / Debating Secession, Georgia, November 1860. Speech at Milledgeville, November 15, 1860 / "States cannot exist disunited," November 1860. The Right of States to Secede, November 16, 1860 / "I am for the Union as it is," Texas, November 1860 / "Our sore national sickness : New York, November 1860. Diary, November 20, November 26-December 1, 1860 / "This dangerous game" : Missouri, November 1860. Diary, November 22, 1860 / The "Wicked Spirit" of Secession : Tennessee, November 1860 / Lincoln, and Slavery : December 1860. The Late Election, December 1860 / Secessionism in Louisiana, December 1860. William T. Sherman to Thomas Ewing Sr. and to John Sherman, December 1, 1860 -- Washington, D.C., December 1860. From the Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1860 / The Benefits of Slavery : December 1860. The Non-Slaveholders of the South, December 5, 1860 / Advocating Secession : Georgia, December 1860 / Restating Positions on Slavery : December 1860 / Rejecting Coercion : December 1860. The Right of Secession, December 17, 1860 / "I stand by the Union" : December 1860. Remarks in the U.S. Senate, December 17, 1860 / A Compromise over Slavery, December 1860. Remarks in the U.S. Senate, December 18, 1860 / "Meanness and rascality" : Washington, D.C., December 1860 / A Confidential Message : Illinois, December 1860. Memorandum Regarding Abraham Lincoln, December 22, 1860 / Charleston, December 1860. South Carolina Declaration of the Causes of Secession, December 24, 1860 -- Occupying Fort Sumter : South Carolina, December 1860. From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 / "A terrible revulsion of feeling" : South Carolina, December 1860. Diary, December 26-27, 1860 / Urging Kentucky to Secede: December 1860 / "The tempest bursting" : 1860. Misgivings / "Sad foreboding": Georgia, January 1861 / "All depends on Virginia" : Washington, D.C., January 1861 / Jackson, January 1861. Mississippi Declaration of the Causes of Secession, January 9, 1861 -- "A warlike aspect." Washington, D.C., January 1861 / The "Star of the West" : South Carolina, January 1861. Diary, January 9-13, 1861 / Washington, D.C., January 1861. Farewell Address in the U.S. Senate, January 21, 1861 / The Evils of Anarchy and Civil War: January 1861 / Montgomery, Alabama, February 1861. Inaugural Address, February 18, 1861 / Hopes for Lincoln's Administration: March 1861. The New President, March 1861 / Washington, D.C., March 1861. First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 / "That wretch Abraham Lincoln" : North Carolina, March 1861. Diary, March 4, 1861 / Vindicating Slavery: Georgia, March 1861. "Corner-Stone" Speech, March 21, 1861 / Relieving Fort Sumter: Washington, D.C., March-April 1861. Diary, March 9-April 8, 1861 / Seward and Fort Sumter: Washington, D.C. March 1861. Memoir of Events, March 1861 / Challenging Lincoln: Washington, D.C., April 1861. Memorandum for the President, April 1, 1861 / "I must do it": Washington, D.C., April 1861 / The War Begins: South Carolina, April 1861. Diary, April 7-15, 1861 / Bombardment and Surrender: South Carolina, April 1861. From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 / New Yorkers Respond : April 1861. Diary, April 13-16, 1861 / Vindicating National Honor: April 1861. The People and the Issue, April 15, 1861 / Fighting "the mad rebellion": April 1861. The War Begun-The Duty of American Citizens, April 15, 1861 / Celebration in Charleston: South Carolina, April 1861. From My Diary North and South, April 17, 1861 / "Infidel" Enemies : Georgia, April 1861 / Secessionism in Richmond: Virginia, April 1861. Diary, April 15-22, 1861 /


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From instruction to delight : an anthology of children's literature to 1850 / edited by Patricia Dem

xvii, 365 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0195418891
Early Lessons at Home and School -- From The Colloquy (c. 1000) / From On the Properties of Things (c. 1200) / ABC of Aristotle (c. 1430) / from The Schoole of Vertue and Booke of Good Nurture (1557) / From The Boke of Nurture, or Schoole of Good Manners (1577) / From A Jewell House of Art and Nature (1594) / Hornbook -- Battledore -- Domestic Writing: Juvenilia -- 'A new yeres gift' (1581) / 'George Bercklay to his grandfather' (1610) and 'George to Mrs Cave his mothers wayting woman' (c. 1613) / Letter to her Father: Mary Downing to Emmanuel Downing (1635) / Mothers' Advice and Grief -- From Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratives (1604) / From The Mothers Blessing (1616) / From The Mothers Legacie to her Unborne Childe (1624) / From A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters (1645) / 'On the death of my first and dearest childe' (1655) / 'On the Death of my dear Daughter' (1703) / Writing of Clergymen and Schoolmasters -- From This Historie of Four-Footed Beastes (1607) / From Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659) / Puritan 'Hell-Fire': Warnings and Warmth -- From Milk for Babes (1646) / 'Upon my Son Samuel' (1657) and 'In reference to her Children' (1659) / From A Token for Children (1672) / From War with the Devil (1673) / From The New England Primer (1683-1830) -- From A Book for Boys and Girls (1686) / Lyrical Instruction: Isaac Watts and his Contemporaries -- From Divine Songs (1715) and Moral Songs (1740) / From Fables (1727) / From Poems on Several Occasions (1734) / Chapbooks and Penny Histories -- Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1744) -- Interesting Story of the Children in the Wood -- From The Life and Death of Tom Thumb -- From The Pleasant History of Thomas Hickathrift -- Trial of an Ox, for Killing a Man -- From The Riddle Book -- Boreman, Cooper, and Newbery: 'Instructions with Delight' -- From The Gigantick History (1741) / From A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744) / From Nurse Truelove's New Year's Gift (1755) -- From The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765) -- Rational Moralists -- From The Governess (1749) / From The Adventures of a Pincushion (c. 1780) / From Poems an Various Subjects (1783) / From Her Journal Book (1783) / From The History of Sandford and Merton (1783) / From Cobwebs to Catch Flies (c. 1783) / From Original Stories (1788) / From Mental Improvement (1794) / From The Village School (c. 1795) / 'The Purple Jar' from Early Lessons (1801) / From The Young Emigrants (1826) / From The Affectionate Parent's Gift (1828) / From Mary's Grammar (1835) / From Rollo at School (1839) / 'Janetta and her Jujubes' from Farewell Tales (1840) / From Make the Best of It (1843) / Sunday School Moralists -- From Early Piety (1777) / From Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) and Lessons for Children: Part IV (1788) / From Fabulous Histories (1786) and The Charity School Spelling Book (c. 1798) / From Divine Hymns (1790) and Instructions for Children (1794) / Black Giles, the Poacher: Part II (1796) / From The History of the Fairchild Family (1818) / From The Peep of Day (1833) / From Flowers That Never Fade (1838) / From Dutch Tiles (1842) / Harbingers of the Golden Age -- From Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1772) and 'My Cat Jeoffry' from Jubilate Agno / From Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) / From The Infant's Library (c. 1800) / From Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804-5) and Rhymes for the Nursery (1806) / From The Daisy (1807) / Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807) / Peacock 'At Home' (1807) / From Poems (1808) / From Poetry for Children (1809) / From Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (1813) -- 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas' (1823) / From Poems for Our Children (1830) / Story of the Three Bears (1831) / From Sketches of Natural History (1834) / From Holiday House: A Series of Tales (1839) / From New Nursery Songs for All Good Children (1843) / From The Book of Nonsense (1846) / From The English Struwwelpeter (1848) / Sad Tale of Mrs Mole and Mrs Mouse (c. 1849) /

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Life in prairie land / by Eliza W. Farnham ; introduction by John Hallwas.
Farnham, Eliza W.
xxxv, 269 p. ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0252060393 (alk. paper)
Embarkation for the Illinois -- Western steamboats in general -- The Banner in particular -- Her captain and crew -- Hooshier bride and bridegroom -- A walk in St. Louis -- A horrible tale of lynching -- Departure from St. Louis -- The first night on board the Banner -- The next morning -- Speed of our boat -- Junction of the Missouri and Mississippi -- Landing at Alton -- Unpardonable behavior of the boat under trying circumstances -- Disaster to the captain -- A specimen of Hooshier indignation -- Leaving Alton we discover that Jersey is on board -- A day on an island -- Who Jersey is -- Some of his experience during his travels -- His political opinions -- Peculiar style of expressing them -- His notions on travel -- Another night on the Banner -- A conversation with our western bridegroom -- His opinions on the woman question decidedly anti-Wollstonecraft -- His reasons for entering into matrimony -- How he would sympathize with his wife in sorrow, with a practical illustration -- Her story and disposition to lighten the darker shades of his doctrines -- Improved conduct of the boat -- Politeness of her captain -- Our style of conversation pantomimic on my part -- Landing -- Pokerton -- Starting for our final destination -- The country, the road, the slues -- Their peculiar character demonstrated -- Woodland and its principal inhabitants -- Prairie Lodge -- Our meeting -- Sun-bonnets, veils, gloves, etc. -- Environments of Prairie Lodge -- Its neighbors -- A horticultural curiosity -- Preparing for tea -- Partaking it -- The evening -- Who were present, and how we spent it -- Prairie life begun -- Rambles in the groves and over the prairies -- Visits on horseback -- An afternoon with a neighbor three miles distant -- Amusing details of this visit, a fair specimen of the social visiting of the country -- Commencement of Sucker life -- Our next neighbor -- The mother Meg Merrilies -- The house; its architecture -- The grounds; how laid out and adorned -- The children; their pastimes -- The father; his political and social position -- Another house; the spirit which reigned in it -- Beauty of order and purity in domestic life -- Spring around Prairie Lodge -- Showers -- Thunderstorms at night -- Their sublimity -- Their effect on the landscape -- Pleasures of the season -- Strawberry -- Quail -- Scene from his domestic life -- Grouse; his habits -- Spring morning in the prairies -- Bob-o-link -- Woodpecker -- Parroquet -- Crow -- Buzzard -- Wild turkey -- Cattle on the prairie -- Hare -- Deer -- Whippoor-Will -- The tale of sorrow -- Sickness of strangers on first arriving in the country -- Their claims to hospitality -- The solitary man's settlement in the west -- His wife; their love; their progress and prospects -- A remarkable series of thunder-storms -- The pestilence which followed -- The husband and wife both prostrated -- The death of the wife and infant -- His grief -- Their grave -- The beauty of the spot -- Reasons for the attachment of the prairie settler to his home -- A rare opportunity for seeing the natives of our region -- The menagerie; getting to it -- Style of locomotion -- Tyler; his peculiarities, ill luck, gait, &c.; his companion -- Our arrival -- Street dialogue -- Discussion of the show -- Entrance -- Appearance of the crowd; their motley dress -- A character; his garb -- Another; her dress; stature; recognition -- Her sensibility and comments on the performances -- Her description of the male personage before introduced -- His stories of the wars and himself -- An invitation -- The departure for home -- Discussion of persons and things -- Legal document -- Close of the day -- Delicate foot-print -- Leaving Prairie Lodge -- Difficulty of finding another home -- What it proves when found -- Its mistress -- Her housekeeping -- Committee on dress -- A walk -- What it decides -- Resignation under desperate circumstances -- A discovery -- A cup of joy dashed before it is partaken -- First night in the Sucker home -- Room mates, furniture, &c. -- Pony -- Rebellion; how maintained -- Sabbath -- Next day; its deeds -- The house; its decorations -- The surprise anticipated -- Comment of my neighbor -- Settled -- Toilet apparatus -- Difficulty of retaining it -- A new proposition rejected with some spirit at first -- How acceded to finally -- Our host; his origin, fortunes, opinions, &c. -- His daughter Sidney and her husband -- Their mode of life -- Sidney's household affairs -- Her culinary arts -- How she was initiated into them -- Fruit groves -- Wanderings in them -- Serpents -- Caught in Boots -- Western housekeeping -- Another visit -- Temperate meal -- The consequence -- Moonlight nights -- Coeur de Lion and his suite -- Their nocturnal ramblings -- Shamefully terminated -- Coeur de Lion's resignation -- Better quarters completed -- Disappointment -- Housekeeping -- Architecture of our dwelling -- Grounds, &c., as described by Mr. F -- My own picture of them -- Our neighborhood -- Interior of the house -- The town -- Our first night at home -- Housekeeping -- Purchases; how disposed of -- Our family -- Susannah -- Pony; her artlessness and patience -- Deserved eulogium -- Our town; its first settlement -- Yankees as early settlers -- Character of our population -- Political and religious faith -- Mrs. Esculapius; her remarkable gifts -- Deacon Cantwyne; his piety, charity, &c. -- Our village doctor; his wonderful gait -- His partner Pomp -- How they did business -- The doctor's musical efforts -- Fire on the prairie -- Wood parties -- The orchard -- The parrighee of the moon -- Sporting parties -- Tragical termination of one -- The grocery next door to us -- Horrible event -- Something more of my housekeeping -- Making bread -- My purveyor -- My first dinner -- Cook, lamb, &c. -- Winter on the prairies -- Sleigh rides -- Cold houses -- Fickleness of the climate -- Deer-hunting in winter -- Mode of building and style of dwellings -- Winter evenings -- Navigation suspended -- Treacherous ice -- Opening of spring -- A spring night -- Features and voice of nature -- Wild fowl -- Steamboats -- Magnitude of streams -- Speculation -- New arrivals -- Opening farms -- Breaking prairie -- Making fence -- Planting trees -- Removal -- Return to Prairie Lodge -- Painful apprehensions -- How dispelled -- Their return -- Reminiscences of early life -- The progress of the destroyer -- The final scene -- Another mission of death -- Agonizing memories -- Pestilence abroad -- Drought -- Character of the illness caused by it -- Gloom and grief -- Dawn of new light -- Birds and animals of prairie land -- The gopher; its curious habits -- Prairie fox -- Prairie dog -- Prairie wolves -- Red wolf harmless -- Grey wolf ferocious -- Danger of unarmed travelers in former years -- Incidents in later years -- Catamount and panther found in "bottom lands" -- Grey wolf monarch of the prairie -- Robs the tomb when famished -- The burning of the prairie -- A thrilling incident on the great northern and southern road, passing near Peoria, Illinois -- The country around the spot -- Its rare beauty -- Account of an early settler here; his preparation for winter; journey to the nearest settlement for his cow and for winter supplies -- Mother and children left alone -- Visit from warrior Indians -- Sleepless night and foreboding of evil -- She watches the prairie -- Faint light in the distance -- Prairie on fire -- Fearful progress of the flames, and the sublimity of the scene -- Her terror and helplessness -- Cabin in flames -- The instinct of the dog saves the lives of mother and children -- They sleep without shelter, and sustain life by a pittance of wild fruit -- Desolation of the scene -- A storm comes on -- Children and mother hover around the smouldering ruins of the cabin -- The mother sinks -- Premature birth -- The father arrives to hear from his wife the terrible story, to witness her dying hour, and to bury mother and child in one tomb -- His bitter grief -- Progress of the settlers -- Habits -- Views of labor -- A journey -- Love ring -- The next tavern -- Amusing incidents -- Court -- Lawyers -- Dialogue with the driver -- The stage-house -- Hostess -- The quandary -- Indifference to the comforts of life; how induced -- Dixonville, the Vicksburg of Illinois -- Gang of thieves -- Incidents there -- Crimes of these men -- The landlord -- The night -- Departure -- Pleasant ride with the New England farmer -- Arrival among friends -- Three guests in one cabin -- Fun -- "Smudging" muskitos -- Climate of the west -- The new town in prospect -- The eccentric man its founder -- His removal to the west -- The inhabitants of the town -- The sea captain -- Our host -- His wife; a pattern of excellence -- Our amusements and visits in the neighborhood -- Departure -- Early settlers -- Emigrants -- The emigrant supplants the Sucker; the reason -- Their different views of life -- Hospitality of the people of the prairie -- Their daily food and method of preparing it -- Morals of the people -- Religious sects -- The circuit preacher -- Style of preaching -- An amusing character -- Happy effect of their ministry -- Excursions -- Visit to the burial grounds and council house of the Sauks -- Reflections -- A tour through the prairie country -- Anecdotes and dialogues -- Tour continued -- Amusing incidents -- Tour continued -- Dialogues with the settlers -- Cheerless hotel -- Tour ended -- Happy residence at Alton; its social aspect more like the eastern cities -- Beauty of the country -- The picnic -- Delightful close of the day -- Return to our former residence -- Change in the place --



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The years and hours of Emily Dickinson / by Jay Leyda.
Leyda, Jay,
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Hymnal of the Evangelical Church.

x, 621, 98 p. :
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The first West : writing from the American frontier, 1776-1860 / edited by Edward Watts, Michigan St

xvi, 944 p. :
ISBN/ISSN: 9780195141337 (paperback)

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The Oxford illustrated book of American children's poems / edited by Donald Hall.

96 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0195123735
Chant to the fire-fly / She will gather roses / Mother's song to a baby / Alphabet / The New England primer -- A visit from St. Nicholas / The three little kittens / Mary's lamb / The cow-boy's song / The New-England boy's song about Thanksgiving Day / Fable / The village blacksmith / Barbara Frietchie / The blind men and the elephant / I'm nobody, who are you? / There is no frigate like a book / The twins / The lazy pussy / Palmer Cox -- The mouse's lullaby /


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Together in a sudden strangeness : America's poets respond to the pandemic / edited by Alice Quinn.

xviii, 184 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 9780593318720

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One of us / by Diane Glancy
Glancy, Diane,
xi, 223 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 1625647042


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Sketches of married life / by Mrs. Follen.
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot,
304 p.
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Poems / by Mrs. Follen.
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot,
xii, 192 pages :
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The essential debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist speeches and writings : the

xix, 487 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 1598535838

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The Meridian anthology of early American women writers : from Anne Bradstreet to Louisa May Alcott,

xi, 516 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0452010756


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Australian verse : an Oxford anthology / edited by John Leonard.

xxiv, 429 pages ;
ISBN/ISSN: 0195506995
Draw a lion -- Moonboat -- Eating the experience : a reminder / As a child I invented a book -- Construction site / Liverpool / From Syzygy : Chemical -- Heartbreak Drive / Loneliness -- The angle of your face -- Ode to Walt Whitman -- Who was going to save you / They flew me in on the Concorde from Paris -- Trench music / From Botany Bay document : Headcount (1788) -- Letter home (Margaret Catchpole) / Like yeast in bread -- Poem /

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The American renaissance in New England / edited by Joel Myerson.

224 pages :
ISBN/ISSN: 0810309130
Jacob Abbott -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz -- Amos Bronson Alcott -- Louisa May Alcott -- William Andrus Alcott -- Washington Allston -- Delia Bacon -- George Bancroft -- John Bartlett -- Cyrus Augustus Bartol -- Catherine Esther Beecher -- Francis Bowen -- Charles Timothy Brooks -- Orestes Augustus Brownson -- George Henry Calvert -- Edward Tyrrell Channing -- William Ellery Channing -- William Ellery Channing II -- William Henry Channing -- Ednah Dow (Littlehale) Cheney -- Francis James Child -- Lydia Maria Child -- James Freeman Clarke -- Moncure Daniel Conway -- Christopher Pearse Cranch -- George William Curtis -- Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall -- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- Emily Dickinson -- Dorothy Lynde Dix -- Frederick Douglass -- John Sullivan Dwight -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Edward Everett -- Cornelius Conway Felton -- James Thomas Fields -- Eliza Lee (Cabot) Follen -- Convers Francis -- Octavius Brooks Frothingham -- Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa D'Ossoli -- William Henry Furness -- William Lloyd Garrison -- Samuel Griswold Goodrich -- Asa Gray -- Horatio Greenough -- Edward Everett Hale -- Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Isaac Thomas Hecker -- Frederic Henry Hedge -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Richard Hildreth -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Julia Ward Howe -- Samuel Johnson -- Sylvester Judd -- Charles Lane -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Samuel Longfellow -- James Russell Lowell -- Horace Mann -- George Perkins Marsh -- James Marsh -- Donald Grant Mitchell -- John Lothrop Motley -- John Neal -- Charles King Newcomb -- Mary Sargeant (Neal) Gove Nichols -- Andrews Norton -- Charles Eliot Norton -- John Gorham Palfrey -- Theodore Parker -- Francis Parkman, Jr. -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody -- William Hickling Prescott -- George Ripley -- Franklin Benjamin Sanborn -- Catherine Maria Sedgwick -- Benjamin Penhallow Shilaber -- Lydia Howard (Huntley) Sigourney -- Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith -- Seba Smith -- Jared Sparks -- William Wetmore Story -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Henry David Thoreau -- George Ticknor -- Jones Very -- William Ware -- David Atwood Wasson -- Noah Webster -- John Weiss -- Charles Stearns Wheeler -- Edwin Percy Whipple -- Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Joseph Emerson Worcester.

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The Book of rounds / Mary Catherine Taylor and Carol Dyk.

xxviii, 292 p. :
ISBN/ISSN: 0876901828


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