Letter from George W. Campbell, esq., late Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee appointed to inquire into the causes and particulars of the invasion of the City of Washington, and the neighboring town of Alexandria, in the month of August last. --

Laid before the House by the Chairman of the said Committee, and ordered to be printed January 2, 1815.

Letter from George W. Campbell the Chairman of the Committee appointed to inquire into the causes and particulars of the invasion of the City of Washington

Full Title: Letter from George W. Campbell, esq., late Secretary of the Treasury, to the Chairman of the Committee appointed to inquire into the causes and particulars of the invasion of the City of Washington, and the neighboring town of Alexandria, in the month of August last Laid before the House by the Chairman of the said Committee, and ordered to be printed January 2, 1815. 13th Congress, 3rd Session. House. Doc. 38. Printed by Roger C. Weightman

La figure de la sorcière dans la littérature du XIXe siècle (Jules Michelet, George Sand, Eliza Orzeszkowa)

The nineteenth century uncovered and analysed the tragic episodes of witch-hunting and ‘witch’ trials common in Renaissance Europe. Fascinating not only to historians, this subject also inspired men of letters who popularized the image of the witch as an old, ugly and evil person, who thus deserved her lot. Jules Michelet’s La sorcière of 1862 takes a very different approach. Simultaneously a literary and historical work, the book proved scandalous as it rehabilitated the figure of the witch, shedding favourable light on her image: it was the witch who was able to save a last spark of humanity in moments of despair; it was she who acted as comforter and healer to the people. In the context of nineteenth-century literature, certain works by female authors that focused on ‘witches,’ stand out. Whilst certain male authors (Michelet included) presented the witch as a figure from the past, who had finally perished in the 17th century, texts such as George Sand’s La petite Fadette (1848) or Eliza Orzeszkowa’s Dziurdziowie (1885), suggest that the end of witch trials did not imply an end to accusations, persecutions, and even executions of ‘witches’ – and, that in terms of culture, witchcraft or sorcery had not disappeared from the societies they knew.

El "Ennui" en la escena revolucionaria, París, 1830-1848: arte, política y sociedad

Esta tesis corresponde a un programa de doctorado de Teoría del Arte en la modernidad. Su punto de partida es el tópico literario del ennui (el tedio, la noia) en el romanticismo francés y las generaciones que siguieron. Siguiendo el planteamiento de George Steiner sobre lo que él mismo llama «El gran ennui», se hace aquí hincapié en los años de la Monarquía de Julio (1830-1848), pero igualmente se presta mucha atención a dos escritores que entonces se encuentran en plena juventud, Flaubert y, especialmente, Baudelaire. En este particular contexto se trata de abordar el ennui en relación con los modelos económicos surgidos en la época, principalmente el laissez faire y todo el aparato que lo acompaña. Con ello, se pretende establecer una relación entre la literatura y el arte con las dimensiones social y política de la modernidad. Dicha relación ha sido puesta de relieve, no a través de la representación artística sino empleando el paradigma fisiológico que la época vuelca sobre el conocimiento. En este aspecto se trata principalmente del pretendido «funcionamiento» al que Balzac, por ejemplo –pero también otros literatos como Alphonse Karr o Maxime Du Camp– prestaron atención a propósito de París. París es la gran ciudad sobre la que este trabajo de investigación se vuelca desde la siguiente planteamiento: el ennui, del que hablaron los románticos, ha de considerarse en relación con el surgimiento de una estructura económica, política y social donde el deseo se cifra por su propia insatisfacción, y por tal insatisfacción asegura una demanda constante e incluso creciente...

Letter from George Richards Minot to Daniel Kilham, 1777 December 1

Three-page handwritten letter from Harvard undergraduate George Richards Minot to his friend and Harvard graduate Daniel Kilham, dated December 1, 1777. The letter describes the discipline inflicted upon Minot and seven of his classmates by the Harvard government following a “Thanksgiving frolic,” and the retributions carried out by the students against a Tutor who recommended harsh measures for the accused students. The Early Faculty minutes for 1777 (UAIII 5.5, Volume 4, pages 75-76) describes the students’ crime as “making riotous & tumultuous noises in the Hall…committed in Presence of a number foreigners, & and on a day appointed by Authority for public Thanksgiving.”

George Rogers Clark papers, 1771- .

Includes bibliographies.

Pamphlets on English architecture assembled by George Gilbert Scott.

Vol. 6, unanalyzed publications, cont. Records of Buckinghamshire, by the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham (1854). Includes articles: Ancient British gold coins found in Whaddon Chase. Antiquities of the Chiltern Hills / W.J. Burgess. Aylesbury Church in 1848 : architect's report / Geo. Gilbert Scott. A letter from G.G. Scott, Esq., on the supposed Saxon work at Iver and at Wing. Church bells / Robert Eaton Batty. The desecrated churches of Buckinghamshire [cont.]. Drayton Beauchamp / by W. Hastings Kelke. St. Mary's, Ashendon, Bucks. / by Frederick George Lee. Earth-works at Hampden and Little Kimble / by Boughey Burgess. Hilldesden Church -- Transactions of the St. Albans Architectural and Archaeological Society (1851). Includes article: Notice of a seal formed of bone, discovered in the Abbey Church, St. Albans ... / by Albert Way.

Poor laws - Ireland : Observations upon the report of George Nicholls.

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American forces during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States.

"The text followed ... is that of the edition of 1848, published in Philadelphia ... The original work had no index ... this deficiency has been supplied."

The history of England from the accession of Anne to the death of George II. (1702-1760);

Appendix I. On authorities: p. 503-516.

Letters of Matthew Arnold 1848-1888 /

Mode of access: Internet.