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J. J. (Joseph John) Thomson letter to Gilbert Stead
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Letter by Thomson to fellow British physicist Gilbert Stead. The letter reads as follows "Dear Mr. Stead, It was a very great pleasure to me to receive your letter for I remember very well how much I owed to your help during the time I was on the Commission. I hope it will not be long before we meet again. Yours very sincerely, J. J. Thomson." The letter was written in Cambridge.
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Victorious service songs : Rodeheaver's combination song book for all services
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We believe that our friends and the great public will be better pleased with Victorious Service Songs than any other book we have published. Twenty years of association in writing, selecting and publishing gospel songs, combined with the knowledge acquired by observation in conducting the music of the largest congregations and choruses ever assembled for Christian worship, has given us a wealth of experience, the result of which we are passing on to you in this volume. From the beginning of our song ministry our ambition has been to raise the standard of gospel hymns and songs. We realized that this could not be brought about suddenly, but must be accomplished through a steady and natural growth. While fully appreciating the value of many of the old standard hymns (which appear in the hymn section in the larger type), we are firmly convinced that the tuneful, melodious gospel song must not be lost if we are to attract and retain the interest of young people in the service of song -- that vital factor of importance to the present and future activities of the church. With a reasonable number of new songs, together with many of the popular modern favorites, we have herein included a large number of the most famous hymns and tunes of the church -- a combination of both new and old songs that will admirably serve each and every department of the church work and worship. --Preface.
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Stoneman family letters
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This small group of correspondence primarily consists of 25 letters from Cornelius MacLain Stoneman's mother, Mary Oliver Hardisty, his sisters, Katherine "Kitty" and Adele, and his brother, George Stoneman. The letters concern family and social life. Stoneman's mother frequently writes about monetary issues. For instance, in a letter dated January 31, 1888, his mother writes, "Our ranch has big money in it for some of us - it is only a question of time & endurance & as we have kept it through all this time of depression, I guess we can mosey along still further..." In another letter written in 1892, Stoneman writes about suing George Stoneman, "Father cannot sue for divorce, but I can - for he has practically deserted me&" There is a letter from Francis J. Thomas to Walter Percy in Birmingham, Alabama, where he introduces Percy to Cornelius McLain Stoneman. There is also a wedding invitation for Rufus William Burnham and Marion Barnes Bennison in 1887. The letters were also accompanied with transcripts from the donor. The transcripts are located at the end of the collection in chronological order.
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Series III. Toys, games, and puzzles (UNPROCESSED)
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Many of the items in this series are three-dimensional objects ranging from toy blocks, card games, puzzles, board games, and activitiy sets published by companies like the Parker Bros., McLoughlin Bros., and Milton Bradley Co.
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Fourteen months in Canton
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"The letters forming the subject of this small work were written during a fourteen months' residence in the city of Canton, where I enjoyed many opportunities of seeing the inner life of the Chinese, and of learning much of their daily life in their own homes. The letters were written for circulation amongst my family and a few friends who kindly expressed an interest in all I saw and did in the far-off country of China. These descriptive letters accompanied others I wrote at the same time to my family, and so they do not contain any reference to domestic matters necessary to suppress. They are therefore published in extenso. We left Liverpool in the S.S. Abyssinian on our outward journey, January 13th, 1877, and arrived at New York in fourteen days. Our voyage was rough and uninteresting, especially so perhaps to me, as I was very ill the whole time. Fourteen days spent in a cabin is very trying, even to the most patient of minds"--Introduction.
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Fine three-colour process printing inks
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"We have pleasure in submitting in this new specimen book a range of some our latest Three-Colour Process Inks. ... Preceding each series is a brief preface furnishing special information as to certain qualities of the inks--their light resistance, their varnishability, their alkali resistance or otherwise--as well as giving certain hints in regard to the series taken as a whole. The question of light resistance is one which has become in the past few years increasingly important, and we have available information and suggestions which are at all times at our customers' disposal. On the following page are set forth our definitions of the terms which throughout this book are applied to the different inks, and we define exactly what we mean by permanent, fast, etc."--From foreword.
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