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This book contains the letters of one hundred years ago that passed between Dr. James Newton Matthews of Mason, Illinois, and the well-known Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley. Also included in this volume are sixteen letters to Dr. Matthews from Paul Laurence Dunbar, an early African American poet who has received much recent attention.
As clerk of the House of Commons, Bourinot advised the speaker and other members of the house on parliamentary procedure; he also wrote the standard Canadian work on the subject. A founding member of the Royal Society of Canada, he played a leading role during the Society's first twenty years. Ahead of his time in writing intellectual history, Bourinot was also an early supporter of higher education for women. He was a man of contrasts, an early Canadian nationalist as well as an imperialist. In spite of the constitutional changes of 1982, there is still much in Bourinot's writing that is relevant today.
Presents historical and bibliographic information about the Indianapolis publishing house of Bobbs-Merrill and its predecessors. The volume covers the period from 1850 to 1985.
This work contains a list of about 3,500 marriage bonds showing the names of approximately 10,000 brides, grooms, parents, and sureties and the exact date of each bond.