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Green dot and dash grain cloth binding stamped in blind, black, red and gold
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…
Handwritten letter from Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones to Amy Kirby Post, February 4, 1856.
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 A ? Joiner to Isaac Post, November 27, 1855.
Handwritten letter from Richard Johnson to Horace Stone, May 13, 1873.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Johnson to Isaac Post, March 14, 1842.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Johnson to Isaac Post, June 7, 1842.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, January 18, 1867.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, October 10, 1865.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, December 26, 1858.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, February 4, 1857.
Handwritten letter from Mary Dale Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, March 20, 1854.
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 M A W Johnson to Amy Kirby Post, November 15, 1842.
Handwritten letter from Jane Johnson to Priscilla Cadwallader, January 4, 1833.
James H. Johnson, architecture, for the Church of St. John the Evangelist, 2400 Ridge Road West.
Roberts' lecture, "Gestating Jazz: The Mexican Tour of 1885," explores the Latin "tinge" in ragtime and jazz. Roberts has documented and promoted…
ohn Pickstone on “Describing, Analysing and Controlling Life: The Past and Present of Bio-medical (& other) Sciences.” Pickstone is the author…
John Palattella will discuss magazines and literary culture in the present economic and publishing climate. He is literary editor of The Nation, the…
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.…
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…
Portrait of fisherman, John Gallagher, Clare Island, County Mayo
Excerpts of words from the Religious Medications of John Eaton, written c. 1619.
In his interview, Mr. Concannon discusses the Catholic schools he attended in Rochester, and his, and his fellow students', understanding of race and…
John and Lori Williams in Huntington, N.Y. (1983?).
John A. Williams reads a selection from CLIFFORD'S BLUES
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 addresses the 2003 graduating class at the University of Rochester.
Johanna Skibsrud’s first novel, The Sentimentalists, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary prize, in 2010. The book was…
Handwritten letter from John Joe to unknown recipient, n.d.
Handwritten letter from John Joe to Amy Kirby Post, January 30, 1853.
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…
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…
The Critic, The Reader, and The Poet: Literary Authority in Postwar America: Belligerent readers and a beleaguered critic are the topic of the first…
A collection of meditations written in August, 1626 lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem and the livelihoods of its people in relation to God.…
Excerpts from Jerimyes Prognostication of Jerusalems Overthrow, written in August, 1626.
Jenny Nordberg is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and television producer. She has worked around the globe reporting on nuclear proliferation,…
Handwritten letter from Catherine Fox to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Fox writes to Post and hopes Post will visit her.
Handwritten letter from Jason Jeffry to Henry ? Bush, January 25, 1848.
Paris Under Water: how the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910: After weeks of torrential rainfall, the Seine overflowed, sending hundreds…
One of the most prolific African American authors of his time, John A. Williams (1925–2015) made his mark as a journalist, educator, and…
Handwritten letter from Helen M Jarvis to Amy Kirby Post, July 29, 1857.
Handwritten letter from Helen M Jarvis to Amy Kirby Post, June 11, 1857.
Handwritten letter from Helen M Jarvis to Amy Kirby Post, April 13, 1857.
“Afternoon Tea at the Japanese Village, Knightsbridge" in London. 1886
Green diagonal rib cloth binding stamped in pink, dark green and gold
Red cloth binding pictorially stamped in green, black and gold
Handwritten letter from Abram James to Amy Kirby Post, October 23, 1868.
Handwritten letter from Abram James to Amy Kirby Post, June 25, 1868.
Handwritten letter from Abram James to Amy Kirby Post, June 17, 1868.
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, n.d. Letter discusses author‚Äôs hope of being instrument of a new Era and his pursuit of…
Handwritten letter from [James Willets?] to Isaac Post, July 29, 1826.
Handwritten letter from MAW Jalmewn? to Isaac Post, October 31, 1852.
Handwritten letter from Louisa Jacobs to Isaac Post, November 5, 1849.
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 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 her travel plans to Washington, D.C.
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 about the progress she's made with her slave narrative and about her…
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 shares the challenges she's encountered while trying to write her slave…
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 with Post the letter she wrote to the Tribune in response to an article…
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, 185-. Jacobs write to Post about her desire to see her son.
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 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 and discusses her home life, her daughter, Louisa, and a…
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, 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, 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 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 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 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 of her recent travels to Cambridge and Weymouth, Massachusetts.…
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 describes the process of writing her slave narrative.
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 addresses Post's concerns about her son, Willie.
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 writes to Post about her health problems.
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 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 relays to Post her plans to leave the Idlewild estate in Cornwall, New…
JACOB'S LADDER. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (1987). First edition, in dust jacket. Signed by Williams and dated 10 August 1987.
JACOB'S LADDER. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press (1987). First edition, copy proof.
Handwritten letter from James Caleb Jackson to Isaac Post, August 1, 1848.
Handwritten letter from James Caleb Jackson to Isaac Post, December 28, 1840.
Handwritten letter from George M Jackson to Isaac Post, 185-.
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 E. Ives to Sojourner Truth. Ives writes to Truth about the health and status of mutual Quaker friends and family members…
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…
"Iolanthe Quadrille." Arranged by Charles D'Albert. London: Chappell &
INTERVIEWS WITH BLACK WRITERS, edited by John O'Brien. New York: Liveright (1973).
INTERVIEW WITH BILL COSBY. Original typescript of interview for Amistad 2. Unpublished.
Interior page spread from "Mickey & Goofy in 'Goofy King Arthur'"
inscription by Dan Beard in A Connecticut Yankee of King Arthur's Court
Inscribed copy of the book, Camelot (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe), by Robert Goulet, who starred in the original Broadway production.
Inscribed copy of the book, Camelot (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe), by Julie Andrews, who starred in the original Broadway production.
Bound in plum diagonal fine rib cloth with overall floral and seaweed ribbon-embossed pattern
Bound in blue geometric ribbon-embossed cloth
Indulgence slip announcing the substitution of Annie Cole for the indisposed Jessie Bond in the original production of The Yeomen of the Guard.
Quarter bound in apple green glazed cloth with white glazed cloth sides
Advertising poster for "In the fog," by Richard Harding Davis, published in 1901
Blue diagonal rib cloth binding stamped in gold with chromolithograph by Frederic Dorr Steele onlay
Program for Susan B. Anthony’s funeral held at Central Presbyterian Church in Rochester on March 15, 1906.