Two without date or place; the third dated 'Gower Place Euston Square Wednesday.'. English wit and man of letters 1774-1850. All three letters in octavo and skilfully mounted onto quarto paper. Two letters of three pages and one of two pages. All three in very good condition. Playful witty communications to an intimate friend characteristic of a droll caustic wit 'capital at the dinner table' who 'loved a joke even in court' Dictionary of National Biography. LETTER ONE 2 pages: Declines an invitation. Regrets the 'contretems' of a declined invitation 'as it deprives me of the pleasure of seeing one of the brightest lights of the Western World - I should have liked mightily to have met your "Lion - especially "at feeding time" as the man says at Exeter Change. Why what an indestructible Chap you are - they told me not long since that you were making no very graceful exit with the Belly ache in Yorkshire and now you are alive and merry playing Robin Goodfellow at Kentish Town .'. LETTER TWO 3 pages: 'If we can credit anything so monstrous as a Parson in Paradise I verily believe that the Devil would never have wasted his time on Eve when he could have got the black Gown to taste without any trouble.' Possible hints at sexual indiscretions: 'I assure you that your usual invitation always got me into hot water here for "the flesh of my flesh" was willing and my prudence interposing constantly made my Bone a bone of contention.' LETTER THREE three pages dated as above: 'There is a Professor of Humanity in Scotland - you have been there what does it mean Something like our Jack Ketch perhaps - but I am sick of all Professors let them be of humanity Charity or whatnot; for I find those who profess nothing of the sort but exercise their virtues in private more worthy of the honors monopolized by those who advertize.' Intriguing discussion of case: 'An attorney of an uncommon breed as you will see came to consult me about old Mrs. Richardson and I advised her to take the benefit of the act. . After this I learnt that the Daughters with their School must sink or swim according to the success or failure of a subscription: £250 was wanting £150 had been raised in about a week from Raine Montague Basil Montague see DNB & a few other Lawyers - another prodigy. Dining out on Xmas day I told the story & in a little time made a purse of sixteen guineas.' Dubois finally managed to 'get the case submitted to Mrs Coutts' receiving a cheque of five pounds for his pains. All three letters signed 'Edw. Du Bois'. Two without date or place; the third dated 'Gower Place | Euston Sq[uar]e | Wedn[esda]y.' unknown
<p>Reconstruction in the South Series: Problems in American Civilization Edited with an introduction by Edwin C. Rozwenc Publisher: D.C. Heath and Company Boston Date and Numbering: December 1965 Size and Page Count: 6.25" X 9" Tall 109 pages</p><p>Condition: Very Good little edge wear binding tight -------- An excellent opportunity for the collector researcher or historian --------- Contents include: </p><p><br />Table of Contents:<br />The reconstruction of the Southern States / Woodrow Wilson <br />Reconstruction deÃŒbaÃŒcle / J.G. Randall <br />Class and race strife in Louisiana / Roger W. Shugg<br />Civil War and reconstruction in Alabama / Walter L. Fleming <br />Social and economic forces in Alabama reconstruction / Horace Mann Bond<br />The Negro in Mississippi politics / Vernon Lane Wharton <br />The black proletariat in South Carolina / W.E. Burghardt du Bois <strong>William Edward Burghardt</strong> "<strong>W. E. B.</strong>" <strong>Du Bois</strong><br />New viewpoints of Southern reconstruction / Francis B. Simkins <br />Blackout of honest government / E. Merton Coulter. <br />Woodrow Wilson: The war had been fought to preserve the Union to dislodge and drive out by force the doctrine of the right of secession. The southern states could not legally leave the Union such had been the doctrine of the victorious states whose armies won under Grant and Sherman and the federal government had been able to prevent their leaving in fact. In strict theory though their people had been in revolt under organizations which called themselves states and which had thrown off all allegiance to the older Union and formed a new confederation of their own Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Florida Georgia Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Texas Arkansas and Tennessee the historic states once solemnly embodied in the Union had never gone out of it could never go out of it and remain states. .</p> D.C. Heath and Company paperback
Eindhoven and London: Municipal Van Abbemuseum and Thames and Hudson 1990. First edition. Softcover. 220 pages. Published in conjunction a traveling exhibition. Text in English. Features essays by Henk Puts Yve-Alain Bois S.O. Chan-Magomedov Kai-Uwe Hemken Jean Leering and others. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations checklist bibliography list of previous exhibitions and an index. A clean near fine copy in French style wrappers. A very nice copy. Municipal Van Abbemuseum and Thames and Hudson unknown
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