The invention of letters annotated by Charles Pinckney Sumner, ca. 1795-1796

Interleaved second-edition copy of Robert Treat Paine's poem "The Invention of Letters" with handwritten excerpts of 18th century poetry copied by Charles Pinckney Sumner. The excerpts appear to be verses alluded to, or emulated, by Paine in the poem. For example, Paine's verse includes "Beneath the shade, which Freedom's oak displays" and Sumner on the opposite page quoted Alexander Pope's poetry, "Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays." The excerpts include poetry by Alexander Pope, James Thompson, Robert Dodsley, William Falconer, William Hayley, Samuel Rogers, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Gray, and John Denham.

In honor of the ninetieth birthday of Charles Frederick Johnson, professor of English in Trinity college, 1883-1906; papers, essays, and stories by his former students,

CONTENTS. (cont.) --The Christianity of the fourth Gospel, by the Rev. C. B. Hedrick.--Correctness, by the Rev. M. B. Stewart.--An optimistic realist, Ernst Zahn, by B. Q. Morgan.--The hermit story, as used by Voltaire and Mark Twain, by F. A. G. Cowper.--Thumbnail classics. Jack Harker at Yalevard, by P. Curtiss.--The man who heard everything, by W. Trumbull.--"Whiskey, bullets, and..."--The novelist takes to real estate, by R. Wright.

Public laws of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence plantations, as revised by a committee, and finally enacted by the General assembly at the session in January, 1844. To which are prefixed, the Charter of Charles II., Declaration of independence, resolution of General assembly to support the Declaration of independence, resolution of General assembly to support the Declaration of independence, Articles of confederation, Constitution of the United States, proceedings of the Convention on the adoption of the Constitution of the United States by Rhode-Island, President Washington's address of September, 1796, and constitution of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence plantations.

Mode of access: Internet.

[Phot. du Château de Gothembourg par Robert Dahllof, phot. à Goteborg, don E. Reclus en 1886. Sous la même cote se trouve aussi une phot. du Sofia, navire de l'expédition arctique suédoise de 1883, par Dallhöf don de Ch. Rabot]

Donateur : Rabot, Charles (1856-1944)

[3 phot. de Cherbourg, dont une du navire de transport en construction Annamite, lancé à Cherbourg le 5 oct. 1876, don Ch. Aubry en 1883]

Donateur : Aubry, Charles (1832-1900)

Délibérations de l'ancien bureau de l'Hôtel-Dieu ([Reprod.]) / [coll. ] commencée sous les auspices de M. Michel Möring ; continuée par M. Charles Quentin,... ; publ. par M. Brière,...

Collection : Les archives de la Révolution française ; 9.5.6