| | Author: | Virginia Company of London | Add | | | Title: | The Records of the Virginia Company of London  | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Sr Thomas Smith knt Thr̃er.
Sr Edwin Sandis.
Sr Nath. Rich.
mr Wm Bell.
Sr Iohn Dãuers.
Sr Io: Wolstenholme.
mr Humfry Handford.
Sr Iohn Merrick.
Sr Wm Russell.
mr Rich: Rogers.
Sr Dudley Diggs.
Sr Tho: Wilford.
mr Iohn fferrar.
Sr Nicholas Tufton.
mr Aldr̃an Iohnson.
mr Clitheroe.
Sr Samuell Sandis.
mr Morrice Abott.
mr Caning.
Sr Henry Rainsford.
mr Thomas Gibbs.
mr Ditchfeild. Cr.
Sr Robt Wayneman.
mr Thomas Stiles.
Sr Tho: Cheeke.
mr Wm Greenwell.
Wheras the number of One hundreth Children whose names are hearafter
menc̃oned were the last Springe sent and transported to the Virginia Company
from the Cittie of London vnto Virginia And towards the charge and for
the transportac̃on and apparrellinge of the same One hundreth Children a
Collecc̃on of the some of ffive hundreth pounds was made of divers well &
godly disposed p̱sons [74] Charitably mynded towards the Plantac̃on in Vir-
ginia dwellinge wthin the Citty of London and Subvrbs theirof, and thervppon
the same ffive hundreth pounds was paid vnto the saide Company for the pur-
pose aforesaid, And thervppon for the good of the same Children and in
Considerac̃on of the premises, Itt is fully concluded ordered & decreed by and
Att a generall Quarter Courte this day houlden by ye Treasuror Councell and
Company of Virginia that every of the same Children wch are now liveing att
the charges and by the provision of ye said Virginia Company, shalbe educated
and brought vpp in some good Trade and profession wherby they may be
enabled to gett their liveinge and maynteyne themselvs when they shall attaine
their seuerall ages of ffower and twenty years or be outt of their Apprenti-
ships, which shall endure att the least seaven years if they soe longe live.
The Letter.
A Letter dated the 7o of Nouember i621 directed to mr Deputy ffarrar
and to the rest of the Counsell and Companie for Virginia Whereas I sent the Treasuror and yor selues a letter subscribed Dust and Ashes
wch promised 550li to such vses therein expressed, and did soone afterward,
accordinge to my promise send the said money to Sr Edwin Sandys to be
deliuered to the Companie, In wch letter I did not strictly order the bestow-
inge of the said money but shewed my intent for the conversion of Infidellℯ | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Virginia Company of London | Add | | | Title: | The Records of the Virginia Company of London | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Present
Right Honoble: Lo: Cauendish1
1The handwriting of most of the first two hundred and fifty pages of this volume is the same as
that of the latter part of the first volume. It has there been referred to as that of the fourth copyist.
Sr Edwin Sandys.
mr Ro: Smith.
mr Iadwin.
Sr Iohn Dãuers.
mr Binge.
mr Kingstone.
Sr Iohn Brooke.
mr Wilmer.
mr Ditchfeild.
Sr Walter Earle.
Capt: Tucker.
mr Caswell.
Sr Edward Lawly.
mr Addison.
mr Sparrowe.
mr Dept̃ ffarrar.
mr Kightley.
mr Wood
mr Gibbs.
mr Withers.
mr Geo: Smith.
mr Wrote.
mr Berblocke.
mr Copland.
mr Paulavicine.
mr Winne.
mr Widdowes.
mr Barnard.
mr Balmeford.
mr ffelgate.
mr Bromefeild.
mr Nich: ffarrar.
mr Cuffe.
mr Shippard.
mr Meuerell.
mr D'Lawne.
mr Tomlins.
mr Mellinge.
mr Barbor.
mr Risely.
mr Robertℯ.
mr ffogge.
mr ffoxton.
with diuers others.
Sr Wee receaved your letters by the George1
1The caption and the first eight words of this letter are in the autograph of Nicholas Ferrar.
directed to the right Honoble
Lordeℯ Cr But before the receipt whereof wee had finished ours wch wee
purposed to haue sent to you by this conveyance without expectinge the
Georges com̃inge but by the vnexpected contenteℯ of yours wee are driuen to
lay aside our former and breifely to declare our mindeℯ in this wherein wee
take no pleasure. [28] Wee are now enforced to write unto your Ldp: of important matter of another
nature which is touching mr Samuell Argoll whom wee made Gouernour in
your Lordps absence. Wee make noe doubte but hee hath deliuered the
Gouerment wth an accompt of his doings into your Lõps hands. Wee haue
received from him by the George a very straunge letter which together wth
those Informations yt wee haue agaynst him by sundry Witnesses lately com̃
from thence doe importe more discontent to the Aduenturers heare & more
hazard to the Plantation then euer did any other thing yt befell that Action
from the beginning. His discontentℯ in yt wee subscribed our letter sent unto
him wth few hands, our terming him to bee but Deputy Gouernour hee dis-
dayning to bee Deputy to any man, our letters to bee deliuered unto him by
soe meane a man as the Cape-merchaunt wth many such like wch wee pass ouer.
And briefely1
1Written over "cheifely."
wee must complayne to your Lõp of his neglecting and trans-
gressing our Commission and Instructions. First hee hath made away all the
Kyne belonging to the Colony and taken satisfaction for them to himselfe
wheras wee gaue him express chardge in his Instructions to preserue and
nourish them to the Common use except some few which wee had disposed
whereof wee writt him in perticular. He hath suffered passengers mariners
and others wth out restraynte to shipp moast of the Tobacko and all the Sassa-
fras for themselues which by order of Courte at certayne rates agreed uppon
are appropriated to the Magazine—Hee armes himselfe and other wth uniust
accusations agaynst us to ouerthrow the magazine. Without which wee know
assuredly yt neither the Adventurers heare nor the Plantation there can long subsist. Hee hath gotten possession and keepes back our Hydℯ under pre-
tence of being Admirall wch cost our ioynt stock well neare—400li—wth a
greate deale of toyle and trouble before wee could obtayne them wth his obsti-
nate refusall to deliver them hee hath doñ us soe greate displeasure at the
returns of this ship as hee could not haue worked to haue doñ us a greater.
Hee hath forbidden all trade and commerce wth the Indians but trades amongs[t]
them wth the Summer Island Frigott and our men to his owne benefitt. Hee
takes the auncient Collony men which should now bee free and our men from
the Common Garden to sett them aboute his owne imployment and wth the
Collonys stoare of Corne feeds his men hee proclayℯ noe man shall dare
to buy any thing of Furr ∥of the Indians∥ but himself as yf the Plantation
and ye people there were ordayned onely to serue his turne. Theese and to many
like Errours of his are layde to his chardge for wch the Adventurers heare will
noe ways bee satisfyd wth out his personall appearance to make his Aunsweare
and they are hardly restrayned notwth standing the Kinges [farr of in?]
progress from going to the Court to make there Complaynte and to procure
his Mats commaund to fech him home and therefore wee pray yr Lordp for the
avoyding of farther scandall and slaunder to the Gouerment of our Plantation
yt you will cause him to bee shipped home in this ship the William and Thomas
to satisfy the Adventurers by aunswearing such things as shall be layde to his
chardge and for yt wee suppose there will bee found many misdemeanours of
his for wch hee must make satisfaction to the Compagny wee pray your Lorpt
to ceaze upon such goods of his as Tobacko and Furrs wherof it is reported
hee hath gotten together a greate stoare to the Collonies preiudice and to sende
them to us to bee in deposite till all matters bee satisfyd and yt yr Lop: would
bee pleased to take back agayne thos Kyne and Bullocks wch by his unlawfull
sale are dispersed heare and there and yt they may bee brought together
agayne to the Collonies use and to such others of the Hundreds as the Generall
Courte by yr Lopps consent did order and appoynt. Iohn Seuerne Maisters mate of the Iames affirmeth, that cominge one morninge
to Captaine ∥Natha∥ Butler for some monny due to him from the said Cap-
taine, hee the said Captaine brought a Writinge in his hand sayinge hee had
been wth the Kinge and protested that the writinge was for the good of the
Contry and desyred him the said Iohn Seuerne to sett his hand there vnto and
began to read some of itt butt the said Seuerne beinge in great hast did not
attend the matter nor give ear what itt was butt sett his hand to the writinge,
esteeminge and conceivinge Capt Butler to be a ∥verie∥ worthy man but since
vnderstanding yt itt was a writinge in disgrace of the Country the said Iohn
Seuerne doth Disavowe the said writinge, as vntrue, and protesteth that hee
vppon his Oath must say the contrary. Iohn Lowe Boatswaine of the Iames cominge alonge wth Iohn Seuerne to Capt:
Butler sett his hand likewise to the writinge esteeminge Capt Butler to be a
verie worthy gentleman and heard not but a few lines onely of ye said writinge
read wthout markinge itt, butt now hee vnderstandinge yt itt was a writinge
in Disgrace of the Country hee Disauoweth his said handwritinge, and protest-
eth that vppon his Oath hee must say the contrary. A Declarac̃on made by the Counsell for Virginia and Principall Assist-
ants for ye Sumer Ilandes of their Iudgments touchinge our ∥one∥
originall great cause of the dissentions in ye Companies and present
opposic̃ons. The most humble petic̃on of ye Companies for Virginia & ye Sum̃er Ilandℯ. Wee whose names hereafter followe have audited the Accompts in this Booke
p̢sented vnto vs by mr Nicholas fferrar Deputy, of his Disbursments for the
generall Company and wee finde the estate therof to stand thus—(vizt) Wee the Auditors and Comittees of ye Company for Virginia hauing
this present Twelueth of May 1623. audited ye accompts of the Right
honoble Henry Earle of South̴ton for ye yeare Last past begining at the
Two and Twentith of May 1622, vntill this present Twelueth of May
1623, doe find that there hath beene receaued by the said Right honoble
the some of 320li of monyes taken vp at interest accordingly as in the
said Account is expressed; for wch monies mr Iohn fferrar hath giuen
his Bondℯ vnto ye Lady Rumny for 200li and to mr Melling for 120li
So that ye Virginia Company doe owe mr Iohn fferrar the some of
Three hundred & twenty poundℯ. In witnes whereof wee haue here-
vnder sett our handℯ, Dated the Twelueth of May 1623. The Treasuror and Company of Aduenturers and Planters of the
Citty of London for the first Colony in Virginia to all vnto whome
these presentℯ shall come greetinge: Wheras Nicholas fferrar Deputy
Treasuror of the said Company hath by one Booke of Accompt of
his Office of Deputishipp of the said Company extendinge from the
2
2A blank space in manuscript.
day of May 1622 till the 25th daie of Ivne 1623 exhibited vnto
ye Courtℯ of ye [331] said Thr̃er and Compa: a true and p̱fect Acco of
all monneys by him receaved for ye vse of the said Company; In wch
accompt hee hath allso p̱ticularly declared how the said monneys
haue been disbursed and expended for the vse of ye said Company by
lawfull warrants wth Receipts endorced or subscribed or otherwise
Wch Accomptℯ accordinge to the Orders of the said Company haue
been dulie examined Audited and approved by the Auditors of the
said Company as appeareth vnder their hands, and afterward the said
Booke of Accompt haue layne openly on the Table in the Courtℯ of
ye said Treasuror and Company duringe the time in ye said Companies
Orders appoynted and noe excepc̃on hath been taken to itt. The said
Thr̃er and Company therfore accordinge to their Orders in that case
established haue for them and their Successors acquitted and dis-
charged and by these p̢ñts doe for ever acquitt and discharge the said
Nicholas fferrar his heirs executors and Administrators of and from all
and everie the said Monneys by him received and of and from all
further Accomptℯ by him to be rendred for the same. And of and
from all Acc̃ons Suites and Demaunds for or by reason of the monneys
or Accompt aforesaid; In wittness wherof the said Thresuror and
Company haue hereto caused their Legall Seale to be affixed. Given
in a great and Generall Quarter Court of ye said Thr̃er & Company
held the five and twentieth day of Ivne 1623. And in the years of
the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Iames by the grace of God Kinge
of England Scotland ffraunce and Ireland defendour of ye fayth Cr
vizt of England ffraunce and Ireland the one and Twentieth and of
Scotland the six and ffiftieth. To the Kings most Excellent Matie: The humble Petic̃on of Iohn Boyse,
Richard Brewster, Henry Wentworth, Williã Perry, William Best and
others the poore Planters in Virginia
Most humbly shewinge.
That where yor Matie for the advancement of ye Plantac̃on in Virginia, &
encourragment of Aduenturers thither was heretofore most graciously pleased
to pryveledge ye said Aduenturers from payinge any Custome, or Impost
vppon their Tobacco Cr vntill the said Plantac̃on by Peace became somwhat
settled and enabled to returne such duties to yor Maty: aswell in gratefull
acknowledgment of yor Maties: said favour as in regard of ye many great ayds
and supplies they received from many Collections & Contribuc̃ons flowinge
from yor Maties: like gracious disposic̃on towards the good of the said Plantac̃on.
Butt now soe itt is that aswell ye generall State of yt Plantac̃on, as the p̱ticuler
of every Planter beinge fallen into a farr worse and poorer estate then they
were in former times when yor Matie spared to demaund those duties. And
yor Petic̃oners p̱takinge in the generall Calamitie of famine and scarsitie, sick-
nes, mortallitie and bloody Massacre wch hath befallen the said Collony, haue
p̱ticulerly been more neerly pressed then ever, not onely with the now vrginge
and Continuall assaultℯ and surprizes of the incensed enemie wherby they are
inforced by one halfe of their men to secure and gaurd the §labour of ye§ other,
butt allsoe by the many Imposic̃ons and Levies laide and made vppon them
towards the support of the Company from whence heretofore they were wont
to receive releife. By wch occasions beinge impoverished if they shalbe com-
pelled to pay yor Maties: Imposic̃on vppon Tobacco (made cheap by the great
glutt of that Comoditie from Spaine and other partℯ) beinge 6d p̱ pound, and
the Custome 3d p̱ pound (the Customers haueinge abated 3d) this 9d wth other
incident charges will make the cleered proffitt soe little that out of that (though
yor Peticonrs: sole help) itt wilbe impossible for them to raise such supplies of
provision as must necessarily be returned thither, much less shall they be any
wayes enabled to send such more Company of men and servantℯ as they doe
otherwise intend for and towards the advancement of the said Plantac̃on. [374]
The Petic̃oners most humbly therfore pray
That yor Matie out of yor Princely Compassion to the many endurances of yor
Peticoners (many of them haueinge been the ruynes of the late Massacre) and
most gracious affecc̃on to the good of that Plantac̃on for releife of yor Petic̃on-
ers and encourragment of them to continue and others to becom Adventurers
in the same, Graciously consideringe the premisses and that as greate or greater
causes returne for contynuinge of yor Maties former favour to them, will ther-
fore be graciously pleased.
To abate for the present yor Maties: Impost of 6d p̱ pound vppon the
Tobacco now brought in by the said Planters wherby they intend not to
preiudice yor Matie for the future butt onely to releive and able them-
selvs for the present to returne and settle in their Plantac̃ons, And by
yor Maties: most gracious takinge yor said Planters into yor Royall mercie
and Protecc̃on to free them for ye future from the greivous Imposic̃ons
of the said Company wherby they shalbe better enabled herafter to
render more cheerfully yor Maties: said Duties: And yor petic̃oners Cr.
Att the Court att Theobalds 8th Aprill 1624:
His Matie beinge verie Compassionate of the miseries and povertie of the
Planters (and willinge they should haue releife) is graciously pleased to referr
the Consideracon therof to the right Honoble: the Lord Treasuror and Mr
Chancellor of the Exchequor yt some good order beinge established amongst
them they be not soe much opprest by the Company as is alleadged and that
they haue such releife concerneinge ye Impost as they in their wisedomes
(weighinge the Petic̃oners necessities) shall finde most Convenyent. wcihinge | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Virginia Company of London | Add | | | Title: | The Records of the Virginia Company of London | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Most reuerend Fath9 in God, right trusty & welbeloued Counsello9,
wee greete you well. You haue§ heard§ ere this time of the attempt of
diuerse worthie men or subiectℯ to plant in Virginia (under ye warrant
of or ɫres patentℯ) people of this kingdome, aswell for ye enlarging of
or Dominions as for propagation of the Gospell amongst Infidells: wherein
there is good progresse made, and hope of further increase. So as the
Vndertakers of yt Plantation are now in hand wth the erecting of some
Churches & Schooles for the education of the children of those Barbarians:
wch cannot be but to them a very greate charge, and aboue the expence
wch for the civill plantation doth come to them. In wch wee doubt not
but that you and all others who wish well to the encrease of Christian
Religion wilbe willing to giue all assistance and furtherance yow may:
and therein to make experience of the zeale and devotion of or well minded
subiectℯ especially those of the Clergie. Wherefore wee do require yow,
and hereby authorize yow to write yor ɫres to ye seuerall Bishops of ye
Diocesses in yor Province, that they do giue order to the Ministers &
other zelous men of their Diocesses, both by their owne example in
contribution, and by exhortation to others, to mooue our people wthin
their seuerall charges, to contribute to so good a worke in as liberall a
manner as they may, ffor the better aduancing whereof, our pleasure is,
that those Collections be made in all the particuler parishes foure seuerall
times wthin these two yeares next comming: And that the seuerall
Accountℯ of each parish, together wth the moneys collected, be retourned
from time to time, to the Bps of the Dioceses, and by them be transmitted
half yearely to you and so to be deliuered to ye Treasurors of that planta-
tion, to be imployed for ye godly purposes intended, and no other. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | First Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1930-31 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A YEAR ago, as a preliminary step to beginning the inventory of
manuscript materials in Virginia, the newly appointed archivist
interviewed a number of historians and librarians in the State to
discuss the general situation regarding depositories, public and semipublic,
and the possibility of gaining access to private collections. An
outline of the various sources of historical materials was subsequently
drawn up1
1.A copy of this outline, "State Survey of Historical Materials" is appended
to this report, page 8.
and submitted to these same individuals and others within
and outside the State for criticism. Their comments were helpful and
encouraging and it is gratifying to find that, at the end of the year's
work, the outline, with a few additions, has measured up to actual conditions
as found in widely separated counties in the State. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Second Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1931-32 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE survey and collection of manuscript materials in Virginia,
now completing the second year of work, have followed the general
method of procedure outlined in the first discussion of the
project,1
1.First Annual Report of the Archivist . . . 1930-31 (University, Va.,
1931), pages 12-14.
and the list of new counties to be covered, as indicated on the
map published in last year's report,2
2.Ibid., page 3.
has varied only slightly in the
actual execution of the program. By geographic divisions, the following
counties have been surveyed during the year: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Third Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1932-33 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE momentum gained from the two preceding years' work in
surveying and collecting historical materials in Virginia has been
an appreciable factor in facilitating the progress during the year
just completed. As prolonged economic distress has resulted in increasing
demands upon research organizations and special and general
libraries of all kinds, albeit with incomes drastically reduced, so the
need for preserving the raw materials in manuscript and printed form
is more generally recognized. While the specific task must rest upon
the local agency, adapted to the peculiar conditions and problems of the
region, it is encouraging to find the preservation of social science source
materials advocated on a nation-wide scale by the American Library Association
and to see quickened the perennial interest of the Public
Archives Commission, under the direction of the American Historical
Association, as evidenced by its report on the preservation of local
archives.1
1.The Preservation of Local Archives. A Guide for Public Officials. Prepared
by the Public Archives Commission [A. R. Newsome, Chairman] under
the direction of the American Historical Association (Washington, D. C. 1932).
"There is evidence," as one scholar observes, "that in
America we have come to the end of an era, and it is desirable that the
period that is closing be as completely documented as possible."2
2.A. F. Kuhlman in American Library Association, Bulletin vol. XXVII no.
3 (Mar. 1933), page 130. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Fourth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1933-34 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE movement for the preservation of research materials, sponsored
by the Social Science Research Council in 1929, is steadily
becoming national in scope, and the report of another year's work
in Virginia affords good evidence for this contention. While the project
for the survey and collection of social science source materials in
this State originated with the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
and the Library of the University of Virginia, its inception was
made possible by the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Materials
for Research of the SSRC and the American Council of Learned
Societies;1
1.Cf. First Annual Report of the Archivist . . . 1930-31 (University, Va.,
1931), page 7.
and during the past two or three years the activity of other
national and local organizations along the same line has further demonstrated
its fundamental importance for all related fields of scholarship. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Fifth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1934-35 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AN ANNUAL stock-taking in archival work during this era of
rapid change gives pause for reflection. Expansion and planning,
with wide variation in the modification of each by the other,
may be said to characterize these recent years. The sudden expansion
of research activity in the social sciences and related fields, quickened
by the World War debacle, created a heavy demand for the necessary
raw materials. Since economic and social planning were the crux of
the new viewpoint in research, scholars called for every kind of published
or unpublished material bearing upon human relationships, and
those librarians in closer contact with this research took up the challenge
to accomplish the impossible. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Sixth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1935-36 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT IS a commonplace observation that we are living in an age of
rapid change. The statement needs no further confirmation; we
meet with countless examples of it in our highly integrated society
which in itself is an accelerating force. We are not surprised to find
that intellectual as well as material movements, however local their beginnings,
quickly become national in interest and scope, and common
problems are solved through regional and national associations. Despite
forebodings in certain quarters, the trend of the times has led us
rather to expect that the state, whether the individual commonwealth
or the federal government, will play an important part in financing or
at least in administering these problems. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Seventh Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1936-37 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT HAS been the practice in previous reports of this series to relate
archival developments at the University of Virginia and in the Commonwealth
to those in other states and in the nation at large, in order
to keep abreast with the national movement in this field of scholarship.
Events of the past year point to a new era in the science of archives in
the United States, to large-scale co-operation in providing guides to archives
and manuscript collections of all kinds, and to a journal for discussion
of problems and policies. In the care and administration of
their archives some states can boast of notable accomplishments reaching
back several generations; others have undertaken their responsibility
during the present century; and all have had the opportunity of seeking
the counsel of the Public Archives Commission of the American Historical
Association.1
1.Cf. American Historical Association, Annual Report for 1922 (Washington,
1926), I, pages 152-60.
It was the pioneering of this Commission that led
to the founding of the Society of American Archivists during the meeting
of the American Historical Association at Providence, R. I., December
29, 1936; and it is also significant that the first annual meeting of the
new society, June 18-19, 1937, was held in the National Archives Building,
Washington, D. C. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Eighth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1937-38 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SOMEWHERE between the librarian and the historian (or the social
scientist, it may be argued) stands the archivist. Just what his status
is among the professionals or how it is to be arrived at in this country
has not yet been determined. That he is already here complicates the
situation but at least keeps practical considerations to the fore. By
many people of recognized intelligence he is classified with genus antiquarium
because some of his kind are known only as guardians and
preservers of ancient records from use. Like the physician emerging
from the barber's trade in colonial days, the archivist aspires to professional
dignity in his own name. In some states where he has the
title, he is virtually an artisan doing odd jobs of reference and serving
as scrivener for the legislators, or his quasi professionalism may be
that of a politician among politicians. Among county and city clerks
the title of archivist is unknown as applied to their position. In Virginia,
for example, where the county clerks of colonial and ante bellum
times were generally men of prestige and considerable culture, and
where respect for this office has been preserved in some measure, training
for the duties of office, if any, may be acquired occasionally as deputy,
but the job is chiefly one of daily routine in recording current entries. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Ninth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1938-39 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE NINTH year since the establishment of the Archivist's
office has been distinctive in two respects. The Archivist,
Dr. Lester J. Cappon, has been on leave of absence by virtue
of a grant from the University's Institute for Research in
the Social Sciences; and it coincides with the first twelvemonth
of occupation by the University Library of ample quarters in
the new Alderman Memorial Library building. The former of
these two facts has conditioned, and the latter has in very large
measure enhanced, the progress of the University's archives during
the past year under the guidance of an Acting Archivist. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1939-40 | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE CLOSE of a decade of activity in the field of manuscripts
and related historical materials by the University
of Virginia offers the temptation to review briefly the
developments in Virginia during the period and to relate them
to the progress of this movement in the South and the nation
at large. It seems especially fitting to do so because the
1930's have been a time of unprecedented advance in manuscript
and archival work. If this progress has been particularly noteworthy
in the southern states, it may be argued that this appears
to be the case only because so little had been accomplished hitherto
in this region. Undoubtedly the renaissance in southern literature,
historiography, and higher education since the World War
has created an increasing demand for the basic source materials
essential to scholarship. Southern research repositories have
profited by the experience of historical agencies of renown in
New England, the Middle Atlantic states, and the Middle West.
Even the "depredation" of private manuscript collections in the
South by northern agents and collectors in the past has resulted
in a net gain to research: the manuscripts that were carried off
were, in most instances, more safely preserved in northern libraries
than in southern attics; resentment over the loss of these
records eventually moved southerners to take positive steps
towards preservation of the abundant materials that remained;
and in so doing, they found much that had been not only undiscovered
or overlooked, but even rejected because of the narrow
viewpoint of an earlier generation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | Eleventh annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1940-41 | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN June 1940, when the disastrous Battle of France was running
its course and invasion of Britain was impending, the President
of the United States declared that a national emergency
existed and Congress at his request voted large appropriations
to launch a program of defense. A larger segment of the American
people began to take the war seriously and some leaders in
various fields of activity undertook to make preparations for
any eventuality. Archivists and custodians of historical manuscripts
were particularly fortunate in having the problem of preparedness
brought to their attention by the president of the
Society of American Archivists, Dr. Waldo G. Leland, at their
fourth annual meeting held in Montgomery, Alabama, November
11-12. Dr. Leland spoke from long experience with archival problems
at home and abroad and from his service as secretary of the
National Board for Historical Service in Washington, D. C.,
during American participation in the first World War.1
1.Waldo G. Leland, "The National Board for Historical Service,"
American Historical Association, Annual Report for 1919 (3 vols.,
Washington, 1923-24), I, 161-89.
In his
presidential address on "The Archivist in Times of Emergency,"2
2.The American Archivist, IV, no. 1 (Jan. 1941), 1-12.
he discussed the custodian's responsibility for the safety of the
records in his establishment and for the preservation of materials
produced during the emergency and basic for subsequent historical
writing. As a result of certain specific suggestions made by
Dr. Leland to the Society, four committees were appointed: one
on the Protection of Archives against Hazards of War, another on
Emergency Transfer and Storage of Archives, a third on the History
and Organization of Government Emergency Agencies, and
a fourth on Collection and Preservation of Materials for the History
of Emergencies. These committees went to work promptly
at their respective tasks, the first two conferring with the Historical
Records Survey to obtain WPA labor for a survey of available
depositories. The third committee began plans for the compilation
of a handbook of federal World War agencies, including
their organization, activities, and records, and requested the cooperation
of the National Archives, where most of these records
are housed.3
3.Ibid., IV, no. 3 (July 1941), 210. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | Twelfth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1941-42 | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SINCE the preceding report in this series was published, the
United States has become a belligerent in the Second World
War. The general recognition of Sunday, December 7, 1941,
as a memorable date in American history was confirmed by the
President of the United States the following day in his message
to Congress. The formal declaration of war by Congress followed
promptly in half an hour. Living, like many earlier neutrals,
in a fool's paradise, the American people were rudely awakened
from their delusion of peaceful escape from a world at war. The
true significance of the much used term "total war," however, was
not readily understood. That lesson was to be learned partially
during the series of defeats in the first six months of belligerency,
until the marshalling of our resources and power could begin to
bear weight against the enemy. The Japanese attack ended
abruptly the period of disunity and false security. Whatever
followed was "after Pearl Harbor." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | Thirteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1942-43 | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE introductory essay of this report represents a departure
from the recent policy of surveying the year's activities
of the Library in the field of manuscripts and other research
materials in relation to problems and developments in
archives and manuscripts throughout the nation. Instead, an
exposition on the accession and arrangement of manuscripts and
kindred materials in the Alderman Library has been undertaken.
In aiming to show to what degree our system is orderly and
practicable we anticipate and invite outside criticism. Such criticism
may confirm and supplement our own in the light of experience
during the past dozen years. We believe that archivists,
curators, and their associates are interested in how the other fellow
handles his professional stock-in-trade and how well the
public may fare by his service. We hope that other institutions
may be willing to provide a view from the inside. Written records
on this subject are unfortunately few in number. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | Fourteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1943-44 | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN an institution preserves historical records according
to plan, we generally assume that they will be used
sooner or later in research. Their usefulness depends to
a large degree, of course, upon their accessibility. However slightly
some custodians may feel their responsibility on this score,
certain rudimentary controls and procedures can be established
without great difficulty. The system need not be complicated—in
fact, experience in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Division of
the University of Virginia Library has shown that simplicity
of arrangement, along with observance of a few sound archival
principles, makes the records available in good order with a
minimum of delay.1
1.Thirteenth Annual Report on Historical Collections, University of
Virginia Library, for the Year 1942-43 (University, Va., 1943), pages
1-14.
Once the records are within the walls of the
library, they are readily susceptible to some control; but what is
to be said about "system" and "control" while they are still outside? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | Fifteenth annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1944-45 | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TO understand the pursuit of collecting historical materials,
both manuscripts and imprints, four parties must be
considered. They may regard their activities, under varying
circumstances, as hard-headed business or a fascinating game.
Certain parties may be intense rivals at one time, or loyal partners
at another. Self satisfaction and altruism are often motivating
forces that work hand in hand because, whatever the immediate
gain or advantage, there is an ultimate cultural objective
that cannot honestly be gainsaid. In this perennial pursuit is there
a winner? And if so, are the cards stacked in anyone's favor? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | General index annual reports on historical collections University of Virginia Library | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | This index will serve as a partial guide to the manuscripts acquired by the University
of Virginia between 1 July 1945 and 30 June 1950 as briefly described in the
Annual Report. It should be borne in mind that only the smallest of the collections
received have been described in great detail in these pages, and the index furnishes
only the names and subjects which appear in the printed description. For the
larger collections, it is hoped that the names and subjects are at least representative;
but the researcher who needs an exhaustive analysis of a collection will be obliged
to visit the manuscript reading room to consult the card catalogue or the original
manuscripts. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE GIFT of the Richard Henry Lee Papers to Mr. Jefferson's
uncompleted University Library one hundred and twenty-two
years ago was the first of the many gifts which in the second
quarter of the twentieth century have resulted in making the University
a center for historical studies. In that first session of the University, the
Founder was occupied in assembling for the library a collection of books
which, though not the largest in America, would he hoped be second
to none in value. Under his exacting supervision, funds for the original
library were doled out only for the choicest editions; and even before
his appropriation was fully spent, he began issuing in the newspapers
appeals for library gifts. Acknowledging donations of books from
"public spirited citizens" of Boston and London, as well as of Virginia,
he assured prospective donors, in a notice of April 28, 1825, that "their
talent shall not be hidden in the earth". It is to such public spirited
citizens that the University owes the rapid expansion of its historical
collections during the two years covered by this report. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHY ARE so many of "our Virginia manuscripts" in North
Carolina and California? Why is Princeton University publishing
the Jefferson papers? These two questions are partly concerned
with history, and the answers are in part a concern of this
library. They recur with a certain monotony, and for this reason
I have prefaced this guide to our new accessions not only with the
usual report on our projects and development, but also with
several comments on, if not complete answers to, these two questions
and some library policies which relate to them. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | | Title: | Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library | | | | Published: | 2006 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TWENTY YEARS AGO when the first of these annual reports
was issued, Harry Clemons, then in his fourth year as
Librarian of the University, had recently set aside the southeast
wing of Mr. Jefferson's Rotunda as a "Virginia Room," dedicated
to the housing of and to research in Virginia manuscripts and related
materials. Aided and abetted by the late John Calvin Metcalf,
Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies, he was beginning
his planning and campaigning for the Alderman Library building,
which was to open its doors in 1938. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | La Flesche, Francis | Add | | | Title: | The Story of a Vision | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | EACH of us, as we gathered at the lodge of our story teller at dusk,
picked up an armful of wood and entered. The old man who was
sitting alone, his wife having gone on a visit, welcomed us with a
pleasant word as we threw the wood down by the fire-place and
busied ourselves rekindling the fire. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Labriola, Antonio, 1843-1904 | Add | | | Title: | Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In three years we can celebrate our jubilee. The memorable date of
publication of the Communist Manifesto (February, 1848) marks our first
unquestioned entrance into history. To that date are referred all our
judgments and all our congratulations on the progress made by the
proletariat in these last fifty years. That date marks the beginning of
the new era. This is arising, or, rather, is separating itself from the
present era, and is developing by a process peculiar to itself and thus
in a way that is necessary and inevitable, whatever may be the
vicissitudes and the successive phases which cannot yet be foreseen. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | Add | | | Title: | Blue Fairy Book | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONCE upon a time in a certain country there lived a
king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden.
But, though the gardeners were many and the soil was
good, this garden yielded neither flowers nor fruits, not
even grass or shady trees. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lang, John | Add | | | Title: | Stories of the Border Marches | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Among the old castles and peel towers of the Border, there are few to
which some tale or other of the supernatural does not attach itself. It
may be a legend of buried treasure, watched over by a weeping figure,
that wrings its hands; folk may tell of the apparition of an ancient
dame, whose corpse-like features yet show traces of passions unspent; of
solemn, hooded monk, with face concealed by his cowl, who passes down
the castle's winding stair, telling his beads; they whisper, it may be,
of a lady in white raiment, whose silken gown rustles as she walks. Or
the tale, perhaps, is one of pitiful moans that on the still night air
echo through some old building; or of the clank of chains, that comes
ringing from the damp and noisome dungeons, causing the flesh of the
listener to creep. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lang, Andrew | Add | | | Title: | Letters to Dead Authors | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Sir,--There are many things that stand in the way of the critic when he has a
mind to praise the living. He may dread the charge of writing rather to vex a
rival than to exalt the subject of his applause. He shuns the appearance of
seeking the favour of the famous, and would not willingly be regarded as one
of the many parasites who now advertise each movement and action of
contemporary genius. 'Such and such men of letters are passing their summer
holidays in the Val d'Aosta,' or the Mountains of the Moon, or the Suliman
Range, as it may happen. So reports our literary 'Court Circular,' and all our
Pre'cieuses read the tidings with enthusiasm. Lastly, if the critic be quite
new to the world of letters, he may superfluously fear to vex a poet or a
novelist by the abundance of his
eulogy. No such doubts perplex us when, with
all our hearts, we would commend the departed; for they have passed almost
beyond the reach even of envy; and to those pale cheeks of theirs no
commendation can bring the red. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lang, Andrew | Add | | | Title: | A Monk of Fife | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It is not of my own will, nor for my own glory, that I, Norman Leslie,
sometime of Pitcullo, and in religion called Brother Norman, of the Order
of Benedictines, of Dunfermline, indite this book. But on my coming out
of France, in the year of our Lord One thousand four hundred and fifty-
nine, it was laid on me by my Superior, Richard, Abbot in Dunfermline,
that I should abbreviate the Great Chronicle of Scotland, and continue
the same down to our own time. {1} He bade me tell, moreover, all that I
knew of the glorious Maid of France, called Jeanne la Pucelle, in whose
company I was, from her beginning even till her end. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lang, Andrew | Add | | | Title: | The Making of Religion | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The modern Science of the History of Religion has attained conclusions
which already possess an air of being firmly established. These
conclusions may be briefly stated thus: Man derived the conception of
'spirit' or 'soul' from his reflections on the phenomena of sleep, dreams,
death, shadow, and from the experiences of trance and hallucination.
Worshipping first the departed souls of his kindred, man later extended
the doctrine of spiritual beings in many directions. Ghosts, or other
spiritual existences fashioned on the same lines, prospered till they
became gods. Finally, as the result of a variety of processes, one of
these gods became supreme, and, at last, was regarded as the one only God.
Meanwhile man retained his belief in the existence of his own soul,
surviving after the death of the body, and so reached the conception of
immortality. Thus the ideas of God and of the soul are the result of early
fallacious reasonings about misunderstood experiences. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | Add | | | Title: | The Violet Fairy Book | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LONG, long ago there stood in the midst of a country
covered with lakes a vast stretch of moorland called the
Tontlawald, on which no man ever dared set foot.
From time to time a few bold spirits had been drawn by
curiosity to its borders, and on their return had reported
that they had caught a glimpse of a ruined house in a
grove of thick trees, and round about it were a crowd of
beings resembling men, swarming over the grass like
bees. The men were as dirty and ragged as gipsies,
and there were besides a quantity of old women and half-naked children. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lawrence, D. H. | Add | | | Title: | Adolf | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN we were children our father often worked on the night-shift.
Once it was spring-time, and he used to arrive home, black and
tired, just as we were downstairs in our night-dresses. Then night
met morning face to face, and the contact was not always happy.
Perhaps it was painful to my father to see us gaily entering upon
the day into which he dragged himself soiled and weary. He didn't
like going to bed in the spring morning sunshine. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Leach, Anna | Add | | | Title: | Literary Workers of the South | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | UNTIL a comparatively recent date, there were almost no men and
women in the South who made a profession of literature. Before the
war, there was here and there a man who amused himself by writing a
book. William Gilmore Simms, indeed, was a professed literary man; so
was Poe, but he left the South early in his career. The books of John
Pendleton Kennedy, secretary of the navy under Fillmore,
Eliza J. Nicholson.From a photograph by Simon, New
Orleans.
A portrait of Eliza J. Nicholson, from a photograph by Simon
of New Orleans
are still sold; and few Southern sketches surpass those of Judge
Longstreet. There was no end to the verse makers. Still, as a
generality, it is true to say that literature as a serious business of
life was not known. Every man and woman of education was taught to
express himself or herself on paper with force and elegance; but it
was considered as an accomplishment in the woman, and as a necessary
adjunct to his position in life
in the man. The heavy bundles of old letters which belong to every
old Southern family will show that there was enough talent in those
days to have made an American literature, had it been directed into
the proper channels. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Leroux, Gaston | Add | | | Title: | The Phantom of the Opera | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long
believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the
superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and
impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their
mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the
concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he
assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to
say, of a spectral shade. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lewis, Sinclair | Add | | | Title: | Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE ticket-taker of the Nickelorion Moving-Picture Show is a
public personage, who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York,
wearing a gorgeous light-blue coat of numerous brass buttons.
He nods to all the patrons, and his nod is the most cordial
in town. Mr. Wrenn used to trot down to Fourteenth Street,
passing ever so many other shows, just to get that cordial nod,
because he had a lonely furnished room for evenings, and for
daytime a tedious job that always made his head stuffy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lincoln, Abraham | Add | | | Title: | First Inaugural Address | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Fellow-citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as
old is the Government itself, I appear before you to address you
briefly, and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the
Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President "before
he enters on the execution of his office." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Locke, John | Add | | | Title: | Some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money [microform] :
in a letter to a member of Parliament | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | These Notions, concerning Coinage, having for the main, as you
know, been put into Writing above Twelve Months since; as those
other concerning Interest, a great deal above to many Years: I
put them now again into your Hands with a Liberty (since you will
have it so) to communicate them further, as you please. If, upon
a Review, you continue your favourable Opinion of them, and
nothing less than Publishing will satisfie you, I must desire you
to remember, That you must be answerable to the World for the
Stile; which is such as a man writes carelesly to his Friend,
when he seeks Truth, not Ornament; and studies only to be right,
and to be understood. I have since you saw them last Year, met
with some new Objections in Print, which I have endeavoured to
remove; and particularly, I have taken into Consideration a
Printed Sheet, entituled, Remarks upon a Paper given in to the
Lords, &c. Because one may naturally suppose, That he that was so
much a Patron of that Cause would omit nothing that could be said
in favour of it. To this I must here add, That I am just now told
from Holland, That the States, finding themselves abused by
Coining a vast quatity of their base [Schillings] Money, made of
their own Ducatoons, and other finer Silver, melted down; have
put a stop to the Minting of any but fine Silver Coin, till they
should settle their Mint upon a new Foot. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Locke, William John | Add | | | Title: | The Fortunate Youth | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PAUL KEGWORTHY lived with his mother, Mrs.
Button, his stepfather, Mr. Button, and six little
Buttons, his half brothers and sisters. His was
not an ideal home; it consisted in a bedroom, a
kitchen and a scullery in a grimy little house in
a grimy street made up of rows of exactly similar
grimy little houses, and forming one of a hundred
similar streets in a northern manufacturing town.
Mr. and Mrs. Button worked in a factory and took
in as lodgers grimy single men who also worked in
factories. They were not a model couple; they were
rather, in fact, the scandal of Budge Street,
which did not itself enjoy, in Bludston, a
reputation for holiness. Neither was good to look
upon. Mr. Button, who was Lancashire bred and
born, divided the yearnings of his spirit between
strong drink and dog-fights. Mrs. Button, a
viperous Londoner, yearned for noise. When Mr.
Button came home drunk he punched his wife about
the head and kicked her about the body, while they
both exhausted the vocabulary of vituperation of
North and South, to the horror and edification of
the neighbourhood. When Mr. Button was sober Mrs.
Button chastised little Paul. She would have done
so when Mr. Button was drunk, but she had not the
time. The periods, therefore, of his mother's
martyrdom were those of Paul's enfranchisement. If
he saw his stepfather
come down the street with steady gait, he fled in
terror; if he saw him reeling homeward he lingered
about with light and joyous heart. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | London, Jack, 1876-1916. | Add | | | Title: | The people of the abyss | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE EXPERIENCES RELATED in this volume fell to me in the summer of
1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of
mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to
be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the
teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who
had seen and gone before. Further, I took with me certain simple
criteria with which to measure the life of the under-world. That which
made for more life, for physical and spiritual health, was good;
that which made for less life, which hurt, and dwarfed, and
distorted life, was bad. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lynch, Frederick | Add | | | Title: | Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie / by Frederick Lynch | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I FIRST met Mr. Carnegie on a special train to Tuskegee. Mr. Robert C. Ogden,
chairman of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute, had invited about
a hundred men and women to be his guests for a week on a special train from
New York to Tuskegee and back. The train was made up of stateroom cars with
two dining cars, and the guests occupied the train all the week, even while
at Tuskegee. (Principal Washington had built a spur from the main road right
into the Tuskegee campus. He used to say of it: "It is not as long as the
New York Central, but it is just as broad.") It was a very happy party. It
was made up largely of University presidents and professors, well-known editors,
many publicists, and a sprinkling of clergymen and authors. Practically every
man on the train was a man of international reputation, but three or four
stood
out among all the rest not only because of eminence, but because of
the good time they were having. They were in picnic mood and were enjoying
the trip immensely. They were often together. I recall especially Mr. Taft,
Mr. Carnegie, Lyman Abbott, President Eliot and Professor Dutton discussing
international affairs. The Philippine question was then to the front and
there was a wide diversity of opinion in this group on that question, and
when the talk veered around to the Philippines, as it always did, a crowd
of us younger men would gather about this group and listen—sometimes egg
the disputants on. Sometimes the disputants would get quite warm on the subject,
and then we heard some rare talk. All phases of internationalism were discussed,
but on this subject the members of the group were pretty well agreed. But
when it came to the question of armament there came a division of the house
again. There were a good many educators on the train, and most of them were
pretty thoroughly in accord with Mr. Carnegie's views, namely, that the
vocational side of education should be stressed, and that science should
replace the classics. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lightner, John P. | Add | | | Title: | John P. Lightner to Kate Armentrout, October 31, 1861 | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | It is with pleasure do I take my pen to answer your elaborate epistle, which I
received through the hands of our soldier & hero Mr J. Hayse. It need
not be told you that it was received & perused with great pleasure as I
consider it a pleasure to read letters from all my friends, who manifest such a
deep interest in the welfare & safe return of our soldiers as you do. I
am tolerable well at present, but not as well as I have been. I never had better
health than I had two or three weeks ago. Have fattened so much you would hardly
recognize me, if I were to meet anywhere away from home. I think you might come
down & see us all, while we are living in peace & quietude. The
indications for a battle are very faint; according to my way of judging. We will
soon be strongly fortified here, and I hardly think the Yankees will attack us
so strongly fortified, since they are afraid to "show us fight" in an open
field. We had a grand display of the Va
Vols yesterday evening. Gov.
Lecher was present & presented to each Va Regiment, the Virginia
Colors, with a short speech exorting them to never
let her be dishonored, while in their charge. All the Generals with in reach,
were present on the memorable occasion. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lightner, John P. | Add | | | Title: | John P. Lightner[?] to unknown [fragment] | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | the people around here were very liberal sending Clothing Provision and what
money they could get. Is Carter still with you. I havent
forgoten what a time I use to have trying to boss
him around. I supose he is a very handsome Chap, does
he still catch fish? How is Mrs Watson and the girls. Does Mr Strickler still
Preach at Tinkling. I remember how I did hate to go to that Church. I dont think the people are so hyminded and proud out here. I was at Waveland last Sabbath and I
liked it so well I went back that night, to the Presbyterian Church the preacher
reminded me a little of Mr. S. he spoke so much like him but I felt more at home
than I ever did at Tinkling we have been tending
meetings generaly there was a protracted meeting held at our nearest Church 2 weeks, & there
was only one joiner, the Methodist preacher will hold his meeting in a few
weeks. It is true my friend our dear Brother is no more it was so hard for us to
give him up he was such a dear good brother and yet I can scarsely imagine he is no more, it was such a sudden trial for us.
We were looking for them the next week, but they had set the day it just two
weeks from the day he died, it was the 26
th
of Oct. he atended the Fair two days, and was complaining there. he went out to
Grandmas from there he went to Mr Bayleys & took sick Dr. said he had Billious Fever he did not complain
only of weakness, he would tell Bechie he wasnt so
bad. she was with him, that was one consolation. they tell us he died without a
strugle. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | La Flesche, Suzette | Add | | | Title: | Nedawi | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "NEDAWI!" called her mother, "take your little brother while I go
with your sister for some wood." Nedawi ran into the tent,
bringing back her little red blanket, but the brown-faced, roly-poly baby, who had been having a comfortable nap in spite of being
all the while tied straight to his board, woke with a merry crow
just as the mother was about to attach him, board and all, to
Nedawi's neck. So he was taken from the board instead, and, after
he had kicked in happy freedom for a moment, Nedawi stood in front
of her mother, who placed Habazhu on the little girl's back, and
drew the blanket over him, leaving his arms free. She next put
into his hand a little hollow gourd, filled with seeds, which
served as a rattle; Nedawi held both ends of the blanket tightly in
front of her, and was then ready to walk around with the little
man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Le Gallienne, Richard | Add | | | Title: | "The Woman Behind the Man" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Thus is a man created — to do all his work for some woman,
Do it for her and her only, only to lay at her feet;
Yet in his talk to pretend, shyly and fiercely maintain it,
That all is for love of the work — toil just for love of the toil.
Yet was there never a battle, but side by side with the soldiers,
Stern like the serried corn, fluttered the souls of the women,
As in and out through the corn go the blue-eyed shapes of the flowers;
Yet was there never a strength but a woman's softness upheld it,
Never a Thebes of our dreams but it rose to the music of woman —
Iron and stone it might stand, but the women had breathed on the building;
Yea, no man shall make or unmake, ere some woman hath made him a
man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lagerlof, Selma | Add | | | Title: | Robin Redbreast | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | This little tale by Sweden's noted writer of mystical stories
has in it the simplicity of a nursery rhyme and the beauty of
perfect art. The translation from the Swedish is made by Volma
Swanston Howard for The Bookman, with whose permission we
reproduce it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lawrence, D. H. | Add | | | Title: | Rex | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SINCE every family has its black sheep, it almost follows that
every man must have a sooty uncle. Lucky if he hasn't two.
However, it is only with my mother's brother that we are concerned.
She had loved him dearly when he was a little blond boy. When
he grew up black, she was always vowing she would never speak to
him again. Yet when he put in an appearance, after years of absence,
she invariably received him in a festive mood, and was even
flirty with him. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Le Bon, Gustave | Add | | | Title: | The Psychology of Revolution | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is
also a period of revision of the various elements of knowledge.
Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first
cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of
her ancient certitudes, and has proved their fragility. To-day
she sees her ancient principles vanishing one by one. Mechanics
is losing its axioms, and matter, formerly the eternal substratum
of the worlds, becomes a simple aggregate of ephemeral forces in
transitory condensation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Levick, Milne B. | Add | | | Title: | Frank Norris | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FRANK NORRIS has been dead over two years. The rush of faddists, of
readers of new books only, has passed. Norris has been honored with a
limited, and, alas! complete edition. But his books are still in
demand, and if, as he thought, in the end the people are always right,
Norris will not soon be forgotten. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lighton, William R. | Add | | | Title: | Omaha, the Prairie City | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THUS wrote Peter Pindar; and Dr. Holmes, in kindred mood, said
that "fifty years make everything hopelessly old-fashioned, without
giving it the charm of real antiquity. There are too many
talkative old people who remember all about that time; and at best
half a century is a half-baked bit of ware." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lippmann, Walter | Add | | | Title: | An Open Mind: William James | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHIN a week of the death of
Professor William James of Harvard
University, the newspapers
had it that Mr. M. S. Ayer of Boston
had received a message from his spirit.
This news item provoked the ridicule of
the people who don't believe in ghosts,
but the joke was on Mr. Ayer of Boston.
When, however, it was reported that
Professor James himself had agreed to
communicate with this world, if he could,
and, in order to test the reports, had left
a sealed message to be opened at a certain
definite time after his death, the incredulous
gasped at the professor's amazing "credulity." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | London, Jack | Add | | | Title: | The Scab | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN a competitive society, where men
struggle with one another for food and
shelter, what is more natural than that
generosity, when it diminishes the food
and shelter of men other than he who
is generous, should be held an accursed
thing? Wise old saws to the contrary,
he who takes from a man's purse takes
from his existence. To strike at a man's
food and shelter is to strike at his life,
and in a society organized on a tooth-and-nail basis, such an act, performed
though it may be under the guise of
generosity, is none the less menacing
and terrible. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lowell, Amy | Add | | | Title: | Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | When the Goose Moon rose and walked upon a pale sky, and water made a
noise once more beneath the ice on the river, his heart was sick
with longing for the great good of the sun. One Winter again had
passed, one Winter like the last. A long sea with waves biting each
other under grey clouds, a shroud of snow from ocean to forest,
snow mumbling stories of bones and driftwood beyond his red fire.
He desired space, light; he cried to himself about himself, he made
songs of sorrow and wept in the corner of his house. He gave his
children toys to keep them away from him. His eyes were dim
following the thin sun. He said to his wife: "I want that sun. Some
day I shall go to see it." And she said: "Peace, be still. You will
wake the children." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lowell, Percival | Add | | | Title: | Mars / Lowell, Percival | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AMID the seemingly countless stars that on a clear night
spangle the vast dome overhead, there appeared last autumn to be a
new-comer, a very large and ruddy one, that rose at sunset through
the haze about the eastern horizon. That star was the planet Mars,
so conspicuous when in such position as often to be taken for a
portent. Large as he then looked, however, he is in truth but a
secondary planet traveling round a secondary sun; but his interest
for us is out of all proportion to his actual size or his relative
importance in the cosmos. For that sun is our own; and that planet
is, with the exception of the moon, our next to nearest neighbor in
space, Venus alone ever approaching us closer. From him,
therefore, of all the heavenly bodies, may we expect first to learn
something beyond celestial mechanics, beyond even celestial
chemistry; something in answer to the mute query that man
instinctively makes as he gazes at the stars, whether there be life
in worlds other than his own. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | La Flesche, Francis | Add | | | Title: | The Story of a Vision | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | EACH of us, as we gathered at the lodge of our story teller at dusk, picked up an
armful of wood and entered. The old man who was sitting alone, his wife having
gone on a visit, welcomed us with a pleasant word as we threw the wood down by
the fire-place and busied ourselves rekindling the fire. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Lang, Andrew | Add | | | Title: | Angling Sketches | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | These papers do not boast of great sport. They are truthful, not like the tales
some fishers tell. They should appeal to many sympathies. There is no false
modesty in the confidence with which I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some
men are born duffers; others, unlike persons of genius, become so by an infinite
capacity for not taking pains. Others,
again, among whom I would rank myself, combine both these elements of
incompetence. Nature, that made me enthusiastically fond of fishing, gave me
thumbs for fingers, short-sighted eyes, indolence, carelessness, and a temper
which (usually sweet and angelic) is goaded to madness by the laws of matter and
of gravitation. For example: when another man is caught up in a branch he
disengages his fly; I jerk at it till something breaks. As for carelessness, in
boyhood I fished, by preference, with doubtful gut and knots ill-tied; it made
the risk greater, and increased the excitement if one did hook a trout. I can't
keep a fly-book. I stuff the flies into my pockets at random, or stick them into
the leaves of a novel, or bestow them in the lining of my hat or the case of my
rods. Never, till 1890, in all my days did I possess a landing-net. If I can
drag a fish up a bank, or over the gravel, well; if not, he goes on his way
rejoicing. On the Test I thought it seemly to carry a landing- net. It had a
hinge, and doubled up. I put the handle through a button- hole of my coat: I saw
a big fish rising, I put a dry fly over
him; the idiot took it. Up stream he ran, then down stream, then he yielded to
the rod and came near me. I tried to unship my landing-net from my button-hole.
Vain labour! I twisted and turned the handle, it would not budge. Finally, I
stooped, and attempted to ladle the trout out with the short net; but he broke
the gut, and went off. A landing-net is a tedious thing to carry, so is a creel,
and a creel is, to me, a superfluity. There is never anything to put in it. If I
do catch a trout, I lay him under a big stone, cover him with leaves, and never
find him again. I often break my top joint; so, as I never carry string, I
splice it with a bit of the line, which I bite off, for I really cannot be
troubled with scissors and I always lose my knife. When a phantom minnow sticks
in my clothes, I snap the gut off, and put on another, so that when I reach home
I look as if a shoal of fierce minnows had attacked me and hung on like leeches.
When a boy, I was--once or twice--a bait-fisher, but I never carried worms in
box or bag. I found them under big stones, or in the fields, wherever I had the luck. I
never tie nor otherwise fasten the joints of my rod; they often slip out of the
sockets and splash into the water. Mr. Hardy, however, has invented a
joint-fastening which never slips. On the other hand, by letting the joint rust,
you may find it difficult to take down your rod. When I see a trout rising, I
always cast so as to get hung up, and I frighten him as I disengage my hook. I
invariably fall in and get half-drowned when I wade, there being an
insufficiency of nails in the soles of my brogues. My waders let in water, too,
and when I go out to fish I usually leave either my reel, or my flies, or my
rod, at home. Perhaps no other man's average of lost flies in proportion to
taken trout was ever so great as mine. I lose plenty, by striking furiously,
after a series of short rises, and breaking the gut, with which the fish swims
away. As to dressing a fly, one would sooner think of dressing a dinner. The
result of the fly-dressing would resemble a small blacking-brush, perhaps, but
nothing entomological. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Locke, William John | Add | | | Title: | The Fortunate Youth | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PAUL KEGWORTHY lived with his mother, Mrs. Button, his stepfather, Mr. Button,
and six little Buttons, his half brothers and sisters. His was not an ideal
home; it consisted in a bedroom, a kitchen and a scullery in a grimy little
house in a grimy street made up of rows of exactly similar grimy little houses,
and forming one of a hundred similar streets in a northern manufacturing town.
Mr. and Mrs. Button worked in a factory and took in as lodgers grimy single men
who also worked in factories. They were not a model couple; they were rather, in
fact, the scandal of Budge Street, which did not itself enjoy, in Bludston, a
reputation for holiness. Neither was good to look upon. Mr. Button, who was
Lancashire bred and born, divided the yearnings of his spirit between strong
drink and dog-fights. Mrs. Button, a viperous Londoner, yearned for noise. When
Mr. Button came home drunk he punched his wife about the head and kicked her
about the body, while they both exhausted the vocabulary of vituperation of
North and South, to the horror and edification of the neighbourhood. When Mr.
Button was sober Mrs. Button chastised little Paul. She would have done so when
Mr. Button was drunk, but she had not the time. The periods, therefore, of his
mother's martyrdom were those of Paul's enfranchisement. If he saw his
stepfather come down the street with
steady gait, he fled in terror; if he saw him reeling homeward he lingered about
with light and joyous heart. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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