1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996383743903316

Autore

Tillotson John <1630-1694.>

Titolo

Sermons preach'd upon several occasions [[electronic resource] ] : By John Tillotson, D.D. Dean of Canterbury, preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, and one of His Majesties chaplains in ordinary. The second volume

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Edw. Gellibrand, and are to be sold by Henry Bonwicke, at the Red-Lyon in St. Paul's-Church-Yard, 1678

Edizione

[The second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

[8], 298, [4] p

Soggetti

Sermons, English - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

With an initial imprimatur leaf dated Novemb. 2, 1677.

With two title pages; title taken from second title page, first title page torn and not included in pagination or foliation.

Each sermon has divisional title page; each sermon within quires b-g has a separate pagination.

Signatures: A⁴ b-g B-P Q⁴.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781485103321

Autore

Pritchard Myra Helmer <d. 1947.>

Titolo

The dark days of Abraham Lincoln's widow, as revealed by her own letters [[electronic resource] /] / Myra Helmer Pritchard ; edited and annotated by Jason Emerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-280-69759-8

9786613674555

0-8093-8604-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EmersonJason <1975->

Disciplina

973.7092

B

Soggetti

Presidents' spouses - United States

Mental illness - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Front and back flaps; Frontispiece; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Editor's Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bios; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former's 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum. By the 1920's most accounts of Mrs. Lincoln focused on her negative qualities and dismissed her as ""crazy."" Bradwell's granddaughter Myra Helmer Pritchard wrote this distinctly sympathetic manuscript at the behest of her mother, who wished to vindicate Mary