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INTERVIEWS WITH BLACK WRITERS, edited by John O'Brien. New York: Liveright (1973).
"Iolanthe Quadrille." Arranged by Charles D'Albert. London: Chappell &
The Revolution was a weekly newspaper created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that was published from 1868-1872. The issue featured is…
Handwritten letter from E. Ives to Sojourner Truth. Ives writes to Truth about the health and status of mutual Quaker friends and family members…
Handwritten letter from George M Jackson to Isaac Post, n.d. . Jackson tells Post that he will soon have a message from the Spirit of Thomas Paine to…
Handwritten letter from George M Jackson to Isaac Post, 185-.
Handwritten letter from James Caleb Jackson to Isaac Post, December 28, 1840.
Handwritten letter from James Caleb Jackson to Isaac Post, August 1, 1848.
JACOB'S LADDER. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (1987). First edition, copy proof.
JACOB'S LADDER. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (1987). First edition, in dust jacket. Signed by Williams and dated 10 August 1987.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs relays to Post her plans to leave the Idlewild estate in Cornwall, New…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs expresses her desire to receive a letter from Post and shares her concern…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs describes her future travel plans.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs writes to Post about her health problems.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs writes to Post about recent events.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs addresses Post's concerns about her son, Willie.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs responds to Post's appeal that she write about her experiences as a slave.…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs describes the process of writing her slave narrative.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs writes to Post about her recent travels and family events.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs writes of her recent travels to Cambridge and Weymouth, Massachusetts.…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs writes of her visit with fellow abolitionist, William Cooper Nell and her…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs writes to Post about her recent experiences in New York City, including…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs describes the impact she hopes her slave narrative will have on the…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs describes caring for her benefactor and employer, Cornelia Grinnell…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Jacobs writes that she hopes to see Post as an anti-slavery convention in New…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, 185- Jacobs writes to Post about recent events including her ill health and concern…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, 185-. Jacobs writes to Post and discusses her home life, her daughter, Louisa, and a…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, 185-. Jacobs writes about Harriet Beecher Stowe‚Äôs intentions to travel to England to…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, 185-. Jacobs writes to Post that she wishes she had more time to work on her book.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, 185-. Jacobs write to Post about her desire to see her son.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post, 185-. Jacobs expresses concern because she has not heard from Harriet Beecher Stowe…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs shares with Post the letter she wrote to the Tribune in response to an article…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs writes that she will be in Rochester, during the second week of September to…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs shares the challenges she's encountered while trying to write her slave…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs describes her travel plans to London.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs writes about the progress she's made with her slave narrative and about her…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs asks for permission to have the letter her brother, John, sent Isaac Post to be…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs writes of her travel plans to Washington, D.C.
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs writes that she will send letters exchanged between herself and Lydia Maria…
Handwritten letter from Harriet Brent Jacobs to Amy Kirby Post. Jacobs writes of recent events including the birth of Cornelia Grinnell Willis's…
Handwritten letter from Louisa Jacobs to Isaac Post, November 5, 1849.
Handwritten letter from MAW Jalmewn? to Isaac Post, October 31, 1852.
Handwritten letter from [James Willets?] to Isaac Post, July 29, 1826.
Handwritten letter from Abram James to Amy Kirby ? Post, n.d. Letter discusses author‚Äôs hope of being instrument of a new Era and his pursuit of…
Handwritten letter from Abram James to Amy Kirby ? Post, n.d. Letter discusses the state of Spiritualism due to its place in the hands of mortals.
Handwritten letter from Abram James to Amy Kirby Post, June 17, 1868.
Handwritten letter from Abram James to Amy Kirby Post, June 25, 1868.
Handwritten letter from Abram James to Amy Kirby Post, October 23, 1868.
Red cloth binding pictorially stamped in green, black and gold
Green diagonal rib cloth binding stamped in pink, dark green and gold
“Afternoon Tea at the Japanese Village, Knightsbridge" in London. 1886
Handwritten letter from Helen M Jarvis to Amy Kirby Post, April 13, 1857.
Handwritten letter from Helen M Jarvis to Amy Kirby Post, June 11, 1857.
Handwritten letter from Helen M Jarvis to Amy Kirby Post, July 29, 1857.
One of the most prolific African American authors of his time, John A. Williams (1925–2015) made his mark as a journalist, educator, and…
Paris Under Water: how the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910: After weeks of torrential rainfall, the Seine overflowed, sending hundreds…
Handwritten letter from Jason Jeffry to Henry ? Bush, January 25, 1848.
Handwritten letter from Catherine Fox to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Fox writes to Post and hopes Post will visit her.
Jenny Nordberg is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and television producer. She has worked around the globe reporting on nuclear proliferation,…
Excerpts from Jerimyes Prognostication of Jerusalems Overthrow, written in August, 1626.
A collection of meditations written in August, 1626 lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem and the livelihoods of its people in relation to God.…
The Critic, The Reader, and The Poet: Literary Authority in Postwar America: Belligerent readers and a beleaguered critic are the topic of the first…
Joann S. Lublin is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and management news editor for The Wall Street Journal. She was one of the first female…
This book contains vocational guidance for women, such as how to obtain and retain employment. It begins: “Fifty years ago, if we can believe the…
Handwritten letter from John Joe to Amy Kirby Post, January 30, 1853.
Handwritten letter from John Joe to unknown recipient, n.d.
Johanna Skibsrud’s first novel, The Sentimentalists, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary prize, in 2010. The book was…
John A. Williams addresses the 2003 graduating class at the University of Rochester.
Alicante, Spain. 10 May 1969.
The sun was shining, the wine was flowing, the traffic roared by and John and Chester rapped on about Paris, Richard…
The sun was shining, the wine was flowing, the traffic roared by and John and Chester rapped on about Paris, Richard…
John A. Williams reads a selection from CLIFFORD'S BLUES
John and Lori Williams in Huntington, N.Y. (1983?).
In his interview, Mr. Concannon discusses the Catholic schools he attended in Rochester, and his, and his fellow students', understanding of race and…
Excerpts of words from the Religious Medications of John Eaton, written c. 1619.
Portrait of fisherman, John Gallagher, Clare Island, County Mayo
Noted editor at the Washington Post, John Harris will talk about his new book about presidential politics, The Way to Win. Its thesis is that the two…
John Noble Wilford is a senior science writer at The New York Times who, for over three decades, covered many major missions of the US space program.…
John Palattella will discuss magazines and literary culture in the present economic and publishing climate. He is literary editor of The Nation, the…
ohn Pickstone on “Describing, Analysing and Controlling Life: The Past and Present of Bio-medical (& other) Sciences.” Pickstone is the author…
Roberts' lecture, "Gestating Jazz: The Mexican Tour of 1885," explores the Latin "tinge" in ragtime and jazz. Roberts has documented and promoted…
James H. Johnson, architecture, for the Church of St. John the Evangelist, 2400 Ridge Road West.
Handwritten letter from Jane Johnson to Priscilla Cadwallader, January 4, 1833.
Handwritten letter from M A W Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, November 15, 1842.
Handwritten letter from M. A. W. Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Letter also contains a reference to Horace Greeley and notation on ribbon and cord. …
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, March 20, 1854.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, February 4, 1857.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, December 26, 1858.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, October 10, 1865.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, January 18, 1867.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Johnson to Isaac Post, June 7, 1842.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Johnson to Isaac Post, March 14, 1842.
Handwritten letter from Richard Johnson to Horace Stone, May 13, 1873.
Handwritten letter from A ? Joiner to Isaac Post, November 27, 1855.
Kenneth Patchen's art is the subject of Jonathan Clark's lecture, "Extending the Medium of Words: The Graphic Art of Kenneth Patchen," the first of…
Handwritten letter from Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones to Amy Kirby Post, February 4, 1856.
Joseph Sassoon, the guest speaker for the last of this season's Neilly Series Lectures, is the author of Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an…
Green dot and dash grain cloth binding stamped in blind, black, red and gold
JOURNEY OUT OF ANGER. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode (1965). First British edition.
The River Campus Libraries and Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies invite you to attend a Neilly Author Series talk from Joy…
The River Campus Libraries, Frederick Douglass Institute, and Department of Black Studies invite you to attend a Neilly Author Series talk from Julius…
Diaz is the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which also won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Diaz is…
Carl F. W. Kaelber, Jr., architecture, for the Strasenburgh Planetarium, 663 East Avenue.
Handwritten letter from Margaret Fox Kane to Amy Kirby Post. Fox writes to Post and shares how lonely she is.
Handwritten letter from Margaret Fox Kane to Amy Kirby Post. Kane writes to Post about her recent visit with Frederick Douglass.
Handwritten letter from Margaret Fox Kane to Amy Kirby Post. Kane writes about her travels in Newark, New Jersey and her enjoyable time spent with…
Handwritten letter from Margaret Fox Kane to Amy Kirby Post. Kane describes her feelings of loneliness and hopes that Post will visit her.
Handwritten letter from Margaret Fox Kane to Isaac Post. Kane appeals to the Posts for travel money to come and lecture in Rochester.
Katherine Ashenburg is the author of The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die. Dr. Ashenburg taught at the University of British Columbia in…
Handwritten letter from Letmid M ? Kedzie to Amy Kirby Post, October 1, 1852.
Handwritten letter from Letmid M ? Kedzie to Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis, n.d.
A Memorial Art Gallery Publication from 1962 titled "Keeping pace with Rochester's creative spirit, keeping pace with Rochester's cultural vitality,…
Ken and Barbie as Arthur and Guinevere
Handwritten letter from A Kendall to Amy Kirby Post, November 18, 1867.
Harper's lecture, "The Life of Minik," describes an Inuit boy's life after being taken by explorer Robert Peary from Greenland to New York City in…
Handwritten letter from Austin Kent to Amy Kirby Post, 186-.
Handwritten letter from Austin Kent to Amy Kirby Post, March 8, 1866.
Handwritten letter from Mathe M Kertis? to unknown recipient, August 3, 1897.
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Amy Kirby Post, September 5, 1854.
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Isaac Post, January 20, 1825.
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Isaac Post, September , 1838.
Handwritten letter from John Ketcham to Isaac Post, March 11, 1841.