Skip header and navigation

Revise Search

4 records – page 1 of 1.

Author
Plumley, Nancy.
Date of Publication
2012.
  1 website  
Responsibility
Nancy Plumley.
Author
Plumley, Nancy.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory,
Date of Publication
2012.
Physical Description
pp. 82-119.
Summary
"On April 17, 1865, eighteen year old John Rakestraw left the family farm in Bart Township, Lancaster County, to attend Unionville Academy, a small Quaker boarding school in Chester County. During the time he was away his two older sisters wrote to him regularly. Ten of those letters have survived and they provide a candid and often painfully honest glimpse of life on a Lancaster County farm in the 1860's. Diaries and ledgers kept by John's father, William I. Rakestraw , provide additional insight into that that time and place." [excerpt from the text]
Subjects
Rakestraw, John
Rakestraw family - Correspondence.
Bart (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Personal narratives.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 114, number 3 (2012), pp. 82-119Lancaster History Library - Journal974.8 L245 v.114
Websites
Less detail

Dear Mark Twain : letters from his readers

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17986
Date of Publication
c2013.
Call Number
818.409 T969
Responsibility
edited by R. Kent Rasmussen.
ISBN
9780520261341 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520261348 (cloth : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Berkeley
Publisher
University of California Press,
Date of Publication
c2013.
Physical Description
xviii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Jumping frogs : undiscovered, rediscovered, and celebrated writings of Mark Twain ; 4
Notes
Includes letters from Ellen (Mary) Keily (c.1831-1901) who was a resident at the County Home in Lancaster, Pa. at that time.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Letters: 1861-1870 ;1871-1880 ;1881-1890 ;1891-1900 ;1901-1910.
Summary
Collects two hundred letters from readers of Mark Twain to the author himself, offering a glimpse into the lives and sensibilites of nineteenth-century children, preachers, con artists, inmates, and other fans of the author's work.
Subjects
Twain, Mark, - 1835-1910
Authors, American - Correspondence.
Authors and readers - United States.
Humorists, American - Correspondence.
Additional Author
Rasmussen, R. Kent.
Twain, Mark,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
818.409 T969
Less detail

General John Fulton Reynolds : his biography, words and relations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19538
Author
Berger-Knorr, Lawrence,
Edition
2nd Sunbury Press ed.
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
923.5 R462k
Responsibility
Lawrence Knorr, Michael A. Riley, Diane E. Watson.
ISBN
9781620061817 (pbk.)
1620061813 (pbk.)
Author
Berger-Knorr, Lawrence,
Edition
2nd Sunbury Press ed.
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, PA
Publisher
Sunbury Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
312 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Rev ed. of: General John Fulton Reynolds / compiled by Lawrence Knorr. Camp Hill, PA : Sunbury Press, c2010.
Includes: Kinship of John Fulton Reynolds (p. 250-291).
Genealogy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. For God's sake forward! / by Michael A. Riley -- pt. 2. Reynolds, the last six miles / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 3. Reynolds, his own words before Gettysburg / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 4. The relations of John Fulton Reynolds / by Lawrence Knorr.
Subjects
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863.
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863 - Family.
Reynolds family.
United States. - Army - Biography.
United States. - Army.
Generals - United States - Biography.
Families.
Generals.
Military campaigns.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States.
Personal narratives.
Records and correspondence.
Additional Author
Riley, Michael A.
Watson, Diane E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 R462k
Less detail

Handbuch für Deutsche; enthaltend formen zu handschriften, welche den deutschen bürgern der Vereinigten Staaten nützlich und dienlich seyn können...und vierlerley anmerkungen über verordnungen der geseze über obige und andere gegenstände...auch allerley formen in der englischen sprache

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17870
Date of Publication
1819.
Call Number
090 R287r 1819
Place of Publication
Reading [Pa.]
Publisher
Gedruckt und hrsg. von Johann Ritter und comp.,
Date of Publication
1819.
Physical Description
iv, 112 p. 19 cm.
Notes
Text runs parallel to back of cover.
Inscribed Christian Hess 1823.
Subjects
Commercial correspondence, German.
Forms (in law)
Additional Corporate Author
Johann Ritter und Companie.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 R287r 1819
Less detail