[PDF] Letters From Erastus eBook

Author : Anne D. Emerson
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Page : 211 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2015-04-10
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ISBN : 9781937146702

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Letters from Erastus: Field Notes on Grace, written by Erastus Hopkins' great-great granddaughter Anne D. Emerson of Boston, is woven around twenty-two letters written by Hopkins to his daughters in the 1850s and 60s in Northampton, Massachusetts. Hopkins was a founder of the Free Soil Party in Massachusetts and its most eloquent advocate. A stirring orator, he was an effective legislator for Western Massachusetts on Beacon Hill. He was a Presbyterian minister in a sea of Congregationalists, founding president of the Connecticut River Railroad and an active agent of the Underground Railroad. The letters reveal an unexpected sensitivity and attempt to provide firm but gentle guidance to a family coping with years of domestic tragedy. Buried for one-hundred-fifty years in the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the letters become a bridge to Linc, a schizophrenic cousin in prison, and a guide for the author's understanding of her own life story and old New England family. While this is a book full of engaging history, it is also a contemporary story, about a family of artists, the interplay of generations and values, and the ways we search for and find meaning as we move through the chapters of life.

Author : Erastus Fairbanks Snow
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Page : pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Emigration and immigration
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Handwritten letter sent by Erastus Snow to James McGaw. Letter is signed for Erastus Snow by James M. Brown and sent from St. Louis, Missouri. This letter discusses the passage of Latter-day Saint member James Mather and his family from Liverpool, England to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1855. Elder James M. Brown, writing for Apostle Erastus Snow, sent this receipt and order to Elder James McGaw in Atchison, Kansas Territory to supply Mather with wagons and oxen for the overland trip to Utah. Dated May 21, 1855.

Author : Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1421407841

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Sixteenth-century physicians had their letters on medical topics published in printed collections to record their exchange of ideas and make known their professional expertise. During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century Europe may thus be regarded as products of medical humanism. The letters of mid- and late sixteenth-century Italian and German physicians examined in Communities of Learned Experience by Nancy G. Siraisi also illustrate practices associated with the concepts of the Republic of Letters: open and relatively informal communication among a learned community and a liberal exchange of information and ideas. Additionally, such published medical correspondence may often have served to provide mutual reinforcement of professional reputation. Siraisi uses some of these collections to compare approaches to sharing medical knowledge across broad regions of Europe and within a city, with the goal of illuminating geographic differences as well as diversity within social, urban, courtly, and academic environments. The collections she has selected include essays on general medical topics addressed to colleagues or disciples, some advice for individual patients (usually written at the request of the patient’s doctor), and a strong dose of controversy.

Author : Erastus L. Harris
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1925
Category : New York (State)
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Letters, arranged, edited and transcribed by the author's son, Gilbert Harris of Collins, N.Y., in 1925, according to personal letter bound in.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814794211

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General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America’s most important poets. In discussing letter-writing, Whitman made his own views clear. Simplicity and naturalness were his guidelines. “I like my letters to be personal—very personal—and then stop.” The six volumes in The Correspondence comprise nearly 3,000 letters written over a half century, revealing Whitman the person as no other documents can. Volume I includes the poet’s correspondence from Washington, DC, during the Civil War, where he nursed wounded and dying soldiers. In letters to his mother, Whitman describes the suffering and sorrow he encountered in unsanitary hospitals. He wrote to the parents of soldiers and offered hope—or consolation at the loss of an unsung hero. Soldiers who recovered and left the hospitals often wrote to Whitman, and he replied with friendly advice and paternal solicitude. As Whitman himself admitted, rarely was his heart so engaged as in these hospital scenes and war letters, which, like his greatest poems, reflect his characteristic themes—love and death.

Author : Erastus Kies
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Connecticut
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Seven of the letters were written by Erastus Kies of Worcester, Massachusetts to his sister-in-law Fannie H. Kies of Killingly, Connecticut, asking for updates on the status of her husband, George Kies, who was captured by the Confederates while serving with the 18th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. The primary topics were whether or not George would be included in a prisoner exchange, and Erastus' fear for his brother's safety. Also a letter to George from Benjamin Palmer concerning a debt George owed, and an unidentified letter from Charles A. Colton of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to his "Sister Julia."

Author : Wayne Shumaker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520340914

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"The only short and acceptable summary and analysis of the five Renaissance occult sciences." - Times Literary Supplement This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979. "The only short and acceptable summary and analysis of the five Renaissance occult sciences." - Times Literary Supplement This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to se