Sir Ralph Esher:

Mode of access: Internet.

Cosmic effects on the intimate screen: J. B. Priestley, Ralph Richardson and 'Johnson over Jordan' (1965)

This article considers ideas about the suitability of experimental, non-naturalist, narrative forms in theatre and television, through the example of a 1965 BBC2 adaptation of J. B. Priestley's 1939 play Johnson over Jordan. Using both textual analysis of the programme and research into the BBC production documentation, this essay explains how the circumstances and conditions of 1960s television adaptation and the star casting of Sir Ralph Richardson transformed Priestley's stage play. The TV adaptation achieved cosmic effects on an intimate scale, through inference and the imaginative integration of the studio space with dubbed sound.

[Letter from Andrew Eliot to "My Dear Sir," 14 September 1774]

Two-page letter to an unknown recipient discussing the effects of the Revolutionary War on Boston ("at present it's situation is melancholy"). The letter acknowledges the work of the Continental Congress and that its decisions "will be Law to America," and thanks the "munificence of our Friends in the Southern Colonies." In local news, Eliot mentions that Dr. Samuel Langdon will likely be appointed Harvard's next President, and notes the death of Thomas Hollis, a Harvard benefactor.

Sir Boss /

Mode of access: Internet.

Engravings from the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. /

Mounted mezzotint engravings after portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, executed mainly by Samuel William Reynolds and by numerous other engravers: Richard Parkes Bonington, W.A. Rainger, Frederik Bromley, George H. Every, James Scott, George Sanders, A. Sanders, Joseph W. Edwards, John Richardson Jackson, R. José, H.C. Balding, Charles Tomkins, George Salisbury Shury, Richard Josey, Charles Algernon Tomkins, Arthur Turrell, William Henry Egleton, A.N. Sanders, William T. Hulland, T. Hunt, Stephen H. Gimber, H. Davis, Edwin Hunt, Thomas Lewis Atkinson, T. José, A. Scott.

A century of empire, 1801-1900,

I. 1801-1832.--II. 1833-1868.--III. 1869-1900.

New letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle; annotated by Thomas Carlyle and ed. by Alexander Carlyle, with an introduction by Sir James Crichton-Browne ... with sixteen illustrations.

Mode of access: Internet.

A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793 : containing a general view of the valuable productions and the political importance of this flourishing kingdom, and also of such European settlements as were visited on the voyage: with sketches of the manners, character, and condition of their several inhabitants : To which is annexed an account of a journey, made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nationa, being the remotest point in the interior of southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated ... /

An account of a journey to Leetakoo, the residence of the chief of the booshuana nation ... : the facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal : p. 361-437.

Reports of cases decided in the High court of chancery, by the Right Hon. Sir J. L. Knight Bruce, vice-chancellor.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bacon is not Shakespeare! A reply to Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence.

Mode of access: Internet.

Notice sur Florimont, siré de Lesparre, suivie d'un précis historique sur cette seigneurie.

Mode of access: Internet.

Eminent British military commanders ...

Added t.-p., engr.: Lives of the most eminent British military commanders. By ... G.R. Gleig.

The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Portrait engraved by John Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds.