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Narrative Of The Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck Of The Whale-Ship Essex, Of Nantucket : Which Was Attacked And Finally Destroyed By A Large Spermaceti-Whale, In The Pacific Ocean : With An Account Of The Unparalleled Sufferings Of The Captain And Crew During A Space Of Ninety-Three Days At Sea, In Open Boats, In The Years 1819 & 1820, Owen Chase, Paul Royster, Ed.

Electronic Texts in American Studies

On November 20, 1820, the whale-ship Essex, out of Nantucket, was twice rammed by a sperm whale and sank in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The crew of twenty took refuge in three open whale-boats, and attempted to sail east toward the coasts of South America. The boats were eventually separated by storms and darkness, and after more than 90 days two of them, holding five survivors, were picked up by other ships; the third boat was never found.

First mate Owen Chase dictated this account of the fateful voyage, published in New York four months after his return to Nantucket. …

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, October 15, 1821 - December 21, 1821, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, October 15, 1821 - December 21, 1821, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Commonplace Book No.1, From January 1, 1820 To January 1, 1828, George Champlin Sibley

George Champlin Sibley Journals, Diaries, & Commonplace Papers

Transcript of Commonplace Book No.1, from January 1, 1820 to January 1, 1828.

This piece covers the period of time immediately before moving to St. Charles, Missouri and starting Lindenwood College.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, October 16, 1820 - December 27, 1820, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, October 16, 1820 - December 27, 1820, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Loose Page From George Sibley Commonplace Journal, September 17, 1818, George Champlin Sibley

George Champlin Sibley Journals, Diaries, & Commonplace Papers

Transcript of Loose page from George Sibley Commonplace Journal, September 17, 1818.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 7, 1818 - February 10, 1819, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 7, 1818 - February 10, 1819, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 1, 1817 - February 4, 1818, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 1, 1817 - February 4, 1818, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 2, 1816 - February 5, 1817, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 2, 1816 - February 5, 1817, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, December 4, 1815 - February 10, 1816, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Ms021: Instruccion Formada Para Ministrar La Vacuna, Como Único Preservativo Del Contagio De Las Viruelas, Y En Defecto De Su Fluido Inocular Con El Pus De Esta (Spanish), John P. Mcgovern

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Instruction manual printed in Spanish by Rubio A. Serrano in Spanish of two case studies regarding how to distinguish natural methods to cure smallpox in children. Printed in Mexico City, 25 pages. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Letter From George Sibley To John Sibley, August 18, 1811, George Champlin Sibley

George Champlin Sibley Papers

Transcript of Letter from George Sibley to his father, John Sibley, August 18, 1811. Sibley fives a very lengthy description of the area around Fort Osage and the Native Americans that lived nearby. At the end, Sibley wrote a follow up note about this piece in 1860.

Letter From George Sibley To John Sibley, July 1811, George Champlin Sibley

George Champlin Sibley Papers

Transcript of Letter from George Sibley to father, John Sibley, July 1811. George gives a lengthy description of his trip to the Grand Saline and Rock Saline sites in present day Oklahoma. In the letter, George describes the various Native American tribes he encountered, along with seeing large buffalo herds.

Incomplete Letter From John Sibley To Unknown, November 20, 1808, John Sibley

John Sibley Papers

Transcript of Incomplete Letter from John Sibley to Unknown, November 20, 1808.

Letter From John Sibley To Samuel Sibley, February 28, 1803, John Sibley

John Sibley Papers

Transcript of Letter from John Sibley to son, Samuel Sibley, February 28, 1803. John Sibley describes Louisiana; Native American in the area; general gossip.

Phantastes Chapter 22: Titan: A Romance, Jean Paul

German Romantic and Other Influences

Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763-1825) was a German writer. Titan (1800-1803) is a four-volume novel in the Bildungsroman (novel of education) tradition. Schoppe is the friend of Albano (the main character), who searches for balance in his life. Schoppe, however, is a cynic and pessimist and dies after he thinks he see his doppelgänger, but who is, in fact, his look-alike friend. Schoppe’s tragic ending reinforces the death of the brothers in Phantastes.

Journal Of The Convention, Begun And Held At The Capitol In The Town Of Frankfort, On Monday The Twenty-Second Day Of July, In The Year Of Our Lord One Thousand, Seven Hundred And Ninety-Nine., Kentucky Constitutional Convention (1799)

Constitutional Conventions

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Journal Of The First Constitutional Convention Of Kentucky, Kentucky Constitutional Convention (1792)

Constitutional Conventions

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The Journal Of Major George Washington, George Washington

Zea E-Books in American Studies

In October of 1753, George Washington, a 21-year-old major in the Virginia militia, volunteered to carry a letter from the governor of Virginia to the French commander of the forts recently built on the headwaters of the Ohio River in northwestern Pennsylvania. The French had recently expanded their military operations from the Great Lakes into the Ohio country, and had spent the summer of 1753 building forts and roads along the Allegheny River, with the design of linking their trade routes and sphere of influence down the Ohio to the Mississippi. Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie believed them to be in …

Phantastes Chapter 20: The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser

German Romantic and Other Influences

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), most famous for The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596), is a key influence on MacDonald generally and on Phantastes in particular. John Docherty writes that “MacDonald bases his upon the figure Phantastes living the forebrain of the ‘House of Alma' (the human body) in book 2 of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene” (“Sources of Phantastes,” North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, vol. 25, 2005, pages 16-28).

The Purple, October 1909

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Night on the Beach
• The Weather
• Society Notes
• The Wilderness Charm
• He Stoops to Conquer
• Catholic Industrial and Reform Schools
• Pipes 'o Pompey
• Times is Changin'
• Autumn
• On Being a Spectator
• Gold-Brick
• Autumn-the Cheerful Giber
• Sparks from a Whetstone
• Sunrise on Greylock
• An Anglo-Egyptian Incident
• Under the Rose
• Editorial
• College Chronicle
• With Our Alumni
• Athletics
• Indian Summer