edited by Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf.
ISBN
0271016906 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271016914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xxiv, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-327) and indexes.
Summary
"Moore compiled her commonplace book during the American Revolution, carefully selecting works of poetry and prose that she and her friends most enjoyed reading and wanted to remember. Contained are 126 works of prose and poetry by at least sixteen different authors, mostly women....Moore's Book is the richest surviving body of evidence revealing the nature and substance of women's intellectual community in British America" [from the publisher]
"When historian Alfred "Alf" Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974-77), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alf's highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the presidency of James Buchanan (1857-61). The alternating texts mirror each other and tell a story in counterpoint, a frequently hilarious comedy of manners contrasting the erotic etiquette and social dictions of antebellum Washington with those of late-twentieth-century southern New Hampshire. Alf's style is Nabokovian. His obsessions are vintage Updike. " [from Amazon.com]
Unreserved public auction : 900 lots, the libraries and collections of the late John W Aungst, Jr., of Landisville, Penna., Miriam E. Bixler formerly of Lancaster, Penna., Clyde L Groff of Lancaster, Penna., Grace T. Steinmetz of Manheim, Penna. and others to be held ... March 13, 1992 ... and March 14, 1992
111 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
"This work is a revised and much expanded version of At the instance of Benjamin Franklin, by Edwin Wolf 2nd published ... in 1976 ... the new edition also contains passages from The Wolf years ... by Marie E. Korey published in 1984. The sections on the more recent history ... were written by John C. Van Horne and James Green ..."--Page [112].