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Audubon's "The Birds Of America": A Sesquicentennial Appreciation, David Frederic Tatham

The Courier

This article details the unique copy of John James Audubon's The Birds of America which now resides in Syracuse University's Special Collections. The author describes the backstory and traces the journey of this extremely rare work. Audubon's work continues to stimulate interest in diverse fields in academia, from art history and science to literature.

An Unpublished Reminiscence Of James Fenimore Cooper, Constantine Evans

The Courier

A reminiscence of James Fenimore Cooper, written in 1889, lies among the papers of William Mather (1802-1890) in the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University. It is written in pencil on two sheets of paper, one of which is the blank back of a Herkimer County newspaper supplement of 1889. Each sheet is folded to form a sort of booklet. Mather's text, as it stands, is disjointed and marred by occasionally confused syntax, illegible words, and repetitions. A series of false starts, of beginnings not decided upon, occurs before something of a narrative coherence is achieved. Material obviously intended …

Audubon/Au-Du-Bon: Man And Artist, Walter Sutton

The Courier

This article highlights some of the works of the legendary work of John James Audubon, drawn from the collection located in Syracuse University's Special Collections. The author gives special attention to the 1820-21 journal of his voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi (which has been preserved intact), the English and Scottish journal of 1826 (also in its original form), and the descriptive sketches of early pioneer life in the Ornithological Biography. These early journal sources dramatically reveal, at first hand, Audubon's long struggle through many failures and obstacles to win the success and recognition he craved and also enduring status …

Edward Fitzgerald And Bernard Barton: An Unsparing Friendship, Jeffrey P. Martin

The Courier

This article details the correspodence between the "Quaker poet" Bernard Barton and famous literary figures of his era, especially his friend and fellow writer Edward FitzGerald. The source of the article is the Alfred McKinley Terhune Collection, found in Syracuse University's Special Collections. Barton's letters, which are often lively and full of fresh opinion, are (thankfully) still valued today, both for the subjects they deal with and for the people they address. As one critic has stated, "Barton never considered his own letters as literary productions. Rather he felt that his poetry was his sole claim to literary fame." It …

The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

This is the third in a series of articles on the past and future of punctuation. The years under focus here are crucial ones, for they include the invention of the printing press and the shift it caused in the human response to the written word.

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxiv, No.2, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Recent Acquisitions / Amy S. Doherty, University Archivist

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Kipling

Program for 1989-90

Syracuse University Library Associates: Officers, Board of Trustees

Courier, Volume Xxiv, Number Two, Fall, 1989, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Audubon's The Birds of America: A Sesquicentennial Appreciation By David Tatham, Professor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, p. 3 -- Audubon/Au,du,bon: Man and Artist By Walter Sutton, Professor Emeritus of English, Syracuse University, p. 9 -- Edward fitzGerald and Bernard Barton: An Unsparing Friendship By Jeffrey P. Martin, Syracuse University Library, p. 29 -- An Unpublished Reminiscence of James Fenimore Cooper By Constantine Evans, Instructor in English, Syracuse University, p. 45 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three) By Gwen G. Robinson, Editor, Syracuse University Library Associates Courier, p. 55 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the …

The Marcel Breuer Papers And Michael Ventris: A Biographical Note, Isabelle Hyman

The Courier

This article provides some biographical insights into the life of the famous architect and classicist Michael Ventis (who gained fame for helping to decipher the Mycenaen script Linear B). The facts are gleaned from correspondence between Michael, his mother Dorothea, and the architect Marcel Breuer, who designed her apartment. The letters are preserved in the Marcel Breuer Papers in the Syracuse University Special Collections.

Past And Present In Hope Emily Allen's Essay "Relics", John C. Hirsh

The Courier

This article sheds light on the American medievalist Hope Emily Allen, specifically the period when she was writing the essay "Relics." Allen Hope Allen probably began work on the essay after she returned to Oneida from Britain in 1912. In the subsequent period, familial obligations, health, and the advent of the First WorId War kept her away from the European libraries on which her work depended, and she turned to material already in hand, or to essays based upon her Oneida home. It was in this period too that, as "an antiquary bred in the bone", she began to record …

"Interviewing" Mr. Larkin, Robert Phillips

The Courier

This article provides some details about the life of the English poet Philip Larkin. This enigmatic man wrote some of the best poetry in the English language of the twentieth century. His work had a lasting effect upon readers. After that of Sir John Betjeman, Larkin's verse was probably the best-loved of any contemporary poetry in the United Kingdom.

Toils And Perils Of Scientific Publishing In The Late Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries, Eileen Snyder

The Courier

It is perhaps not realized by the modem armchair naturalist what hardships attended his 'explorer naturalist' predecessor in the early 1800s. In the George Arents Research Library there is an intriguing—indeed, quite outstanding—group of volumes, landmarks in the history of the natural sciences, by American, British, and French botanists, ornithologists, ichthyologists, entomologists, and herpetologists. A study of the various prefaces, introductions, and accompanying advertisements reveals the overwhelming problems that not only attended every fact ,gathering expedition, but seemed as well to plague every stage in the publication of the new materials. Nevertheless, undaunted, these explorers were inspired to do what …

The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two), Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

Part One of this serialized survey (Courier 23.2, Fall 1988) dealt with the emergence of a late-Classical and early-Christian interest in eliciting, with 'euphuistic' punctating techniques, the voice patterns inherent in text. Part Two, herewith, gives attention to the Middle Ages. In this haphazard era, logical punctuation, which concentrates on syntactical structures and is therefore more appealing to eye than ear, begins its faltering growth.

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier Vol.Xxiv, No.1, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Recent Acquisitions

Report of the Library Associates Annual Meeting

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1989, for David F. Tatham

In Memoriam, John M. Crawford

Syracuse University Library Associates: Officers, Board of Trustees, Honorary Trustees, Ex Officio

Courier, Volume Xxiv, Number One, Spring, 1989, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The Marcel Breuer Papers and Michael Ventris: A Biographical Note By Isabelle Hyman, Professor of Fine Arts, New York University, p.3 -- Toils and Perils of Scientific Publishing in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries By Eileen Snyder, Physics and Geology Librarian, Syracuse University, p.13 -- "Interviewing" Mr. Larkin By Robert Phillips, poet, critic, and author, p.33 -- Past and Present in Hope Emily Allen's Essay "Relics" (with the inclusion of the heretofore unpublished manuscript) By John C. Hirsh, Professor of English, Georgetown University, p.49 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Two) By Gwen G. Robinson, Editor, Syracuse …