The Modern English Collection

Abbott, Jacob

 Aboriginal America 1860

Abbott, John S. C.

 David Crockett: His Life and Adventures 1874

Adams, Randolph G.

 Librarians As Enemies of Books 1937 (Restricted)

Adams, Samuel

 The Rights of the Colonists 1772

Adams, Samuel Hopkins

 The Poison Bugaboo 1910 October

Adams, William H.

 Franklin County: Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, September 5, 1864 1864-09-05

Addams, Jane

 Women and Public Housekeeping 1913

Ade, George

 To Make a Hoosier Holiday 1904

Adelaide Case

 Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, 1861, June 23.

Adeler, Max

 Frictional Electricity 1905

Aesop

 Fables 1880

Agnew, John R.

 Franklin County: John R. Agnew to Thaddeus Stevens, April 23, 1862 1862-03-20

Ah-nen-la-de-ni [La France, Daniel]

 An Indian Boy's Story 30 July 1903

Aiken, Conrad

 The House of Dust: A Symphony 1920

 An Old Man Sees Himself 1921

Aiken, George

 Uncle Tom's Cabin (dramatic version) 1852

Alby, J. V.

 Augusta County: J. V. Alby to John McCue, February 11, 1860 1860-02-11

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

 Flower Fables / by Louisa May Alcott 1855

 "A Day" from Hospital Sketches and Camp Fireside Stories 1863

 Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power. 1866

 Little Women 1869

 Scarlet Stockings 1869

 Little men : life at Plumfield with Jo`s boys 1871

 Letter from Louisa May Alcott to A. B. Alcott, December 8, 1872 1872 (Restricted)

 The Blind Lark / Alcott, Louisa M.; illustrated by W. H. Drake 1886

 Eight Cousins, or, the Aunt Hill ?

 Rose in Bloom ?

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888: Anonymous review

 "Little Women" on the Stage March 1912

Aldrich, Bess Streeter

 A Long-Distance Call From Jim 1919

 Mother's Excitement Over Father's Old Sweetheart 1919

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

 The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill (Chapter XIII of The Story of a Bad Boy) 1869

 Letter from T. B. Aldrich to "Mr. B", Januaury 17, 1874 1874 (Restricted)

 The Sisters' Tragedy with Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic 1891

 Letter from Thomas Bailey Aldrich to Scollard, October 27, 1901 1901 (Restricted)

 Letter from Thomas Bailey Aldrich to Miss Gilder, September 07, 1902 1902 (Restricted)

 Ponkapog Papers. 1904

 The Story of a Bad Boy 1923

Alexander H. H. Stuart

 Augusta County: Alexander H. H. Stuart to His Wife, c. 1860-1861 Undated, circa 1860-1861

 Augusta County: Alexander H. H. Stuart to Frances Peyton Stuart, January xx, 1861 1861-01-xx

Alexander Whitaker

 Good Newes from Virginia

Alexander, Alvin H.

 Franklin County: Alvin H. Alexander to Lizzie, February 12, 1863 1863-02-12

 Franklin County: Alvin H. Alexander to Sallie, September 23, 1863 1863-09-23

Alexander, Charles

 Augusta County: C. Alexander to John McCue, March 9, 1860 1860-03-09

 Augusta County: C. Alexander to John McCue, June 16, 1860 1860-06-16

 Letter to George H. Robinson, 27 November 1867 1867 November 27

Alexander, Cyrus

 Augusta County: Cyrus Alexander to John H. McCue, December 18, 1858 1858-12-18

 Augusta County: Cyrus Alexander to John H. McCue, December 12, 1859 1859-12-12

Alexander, Hartley

 American Indian Myth Poems 1922

Alexander, William J.

 Franklin County: William J. Alexander to Mr. Laughlin, August 15, 1864 1864-08-15

Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899

 Voices of the Past 1849

 Fair Harvard 1852

 A Welcome to May May 1853

 Nothing to do: a tilt at our best society 1857

 John Maynard: A Ballad of Lake Erie January 1868

 Ragged Dick, or, Street Life in New York 1868

 Struggling Upward 1868

 Paul the Peddler; or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant 1871

 Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving 1875

 St. Nicholas 1875

 The Errand Boy; or, How Phil Brent Won Success 1888

 The Cash Boy 1889

 Driven From Home 1889

 A Fancy of Hers 1892

 Cast Upon the Breakers 1893

 Bound to Rise 1900

 Joe the Hotel Boy, or Winning Out by Pluck 1906

 Paul Prescott's Charge : a story for boys

Allan, John

 Letter, from John Allan to Edgar Allan Poe, 1827 March 20 1827-03-20

 Poe Collection: Letter from John Allan to Edgar Allan Poe, 1829 May 18 1829

Allen & Latson

 Freedmen's Bureau Records: Allen & Latson to John W. Jordan, May 1, 1868 1868-05-01

Allen, Raymund

 A Happy Solution

Allinson, Anne C. E.

 Roads from Rome 1913

Allston, Washington

 Monaldi: A Tale. 1841 (Restricted)

Andersen, Hans Christian

 Fairy tales 1898

Anderson, Mabel Washbourne

 Selected Works of Mabel Washbourne Anderson

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

 An Apology for Crudity 1917

 The Rabbit-pen 1914

 Winesburg, Ohio: a Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life / by Sherwood Anderson 1919

 The Door of the Trap May, 1920

 The Triumph of the Egg 1920

 The New Englander 1921

Andrew Mahoney

 Freedman's Bureau Records: Andrew Mahoney to Captain R.S. Lacey, January 9, 1868 1868-01-09

 Freedman's Bureau Records: Andrew Mahoney to Captain R.S. Lacey, January 17th, 1868 1868-11-17

Andrew R. Barber

 Augusta County: Andrew R. Barber to Mary Anna Silbert, October 23, 1864 1864-10-23

Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus) 1829-1922.

 Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-west, in the autumn of 1856. With information relative to public lands, 1857

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman

 The Lake of Devils Feb. 1906

Andreyev, Leonid

 Lazarus 1918

 To the Russian Soldier 1918

Angelou, Maya

 Maya Angelou's On the Pulse of Morning 1993

Anonymous

 Gammer Gurton's Needle 1575

 Sir Thomas More 1590-1595

 Two Tragical Events 1620

 "Muse" and "Lady" 1824

 Augusta County: Ella [unknown] to Mary Anna Sibert, August 24, 1857 1857-08-24

 Selected Poems from The Atlantic Monthly 1857-1858

 A Slave's Story June 1857

 Amours De Voyage 1858

 The Grindwell Governing Machine 1858

 Found and Lost 1860

 In a Fog 1860

 Mary Somerville 1860

 Franklin County: Captains of the 126th Pennsylvania, Nomination of John Ault, November 23, 1862 1862-11-23

 Elizabeth Sara Sheppard 1862

 Augusta County: Mary A. Smiley to Thomas M. Smiley, July 28, 1862 1862-07-28

 Franklin County: "A deserter from the Rebel army" to Thaddeus Stevens, December 18, [1863?] 1863-12-18

 Franklin County: Thomas [S?], Medical Certification for John H. Reed, January 9, 1863 1863-01-09

 Franklin County: Thomas [S?], Medical Certification for John H. Reed, January 31, 1863 1863-01-31

 Franklin County: Report on Medical Condition of John H. Gray, January 14, 1863 1863-01-14

 Franklin County: Request for Sick Leave for John Ault, January 13, 1863 1863-01-13

 Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years; August 19, 1865 1865

 Facts. By a Woman 1881

 Three Noted Chiefs of the Sioux 1890

 Watching the Crops 1890

 Literary Chat 1892

 The Louisiana Amendment the Same as Ours! 1900

 The Indian of Commerce 18 April 1901

 Emile Zola 1902

 "St. Elmo" and its Author September 1902

 "Ida M. Tarbell" 1903

 Octave Thanet 1904

 "The Centenary of Grimm's Fairy Tales" 1913

 The Log-Cabin Lady An Anonymous Autobiography 1922

 Bones Opens a "Spout" Shop n.d.

 Chief Joseph

 Franklin County: Medical Report for John H. Peters, [n. d.]

 Half a Hundred Reasons Why the American People Should Favor Free Coinage n. d.

 The History of Bel (Restricted)

 The History of Susanna (Restricted)

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

 Woman's Half-Century of Evolution 1902

Antibiastes

 Observations on the slaves and the indented servants, inlisted in the army, and in the navy of the United States. 1777

Appleton, Victor

 Tom Swift and His Motor-cycle or Fun and Adventures on the Road 1910

 Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders 1917

Appleton, various authors

 "Milan," "Rome," and "Constantinople" ; excerpts from Appleton's European Guide Book for English-Speaking Travellers, Part II 1870

Aquinas, Thomas

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE ANGELS 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE CARDINAL VIRTUES 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE CONSERVATION AND GOVERNMENT OF CREATURES 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: CONTENTS 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE CREATION 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON FORTITUDE AND TEMPERANCE 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON GRACE 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON GRATUITOUS GRACES 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON HABITS 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON HABITS IN PARTICULAR 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON HUMAN ACTS: ACTS PECULIAR TO MAN 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE INCARNATION 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: SUPPLEMENT; TREATISE ON THE LAST THINGS 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON LAW 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON MAN 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE MOST HOLY TRINITY 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE ONE GOD 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE PASSIONS 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: APPENDIX 1; OF THE QUALITY OF THOSE SOULS WHO DEPART THIS LIFE WITH ORIGINAL SIN ONLY 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE LAST END 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: SUPPLEMENT; TREATISE ON THE RESURRECTION 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE SACRAMENTS 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON SACRED DOCTRINE 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE STATES OF LIFE 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: SUPPLEMENT; TO THE THIRD PART OF THE SUMMA THEOLOGICA OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS GATHERED FROM HIS COMMENTARY ON BOOK IV OF THE SENTENCES 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: APPENDIX 2; TWO ARTICLES ON PURGATORY 1269-1273 (Restricted)

 Summa Theologica: TREATISE ON THE WORK OF THE SIX DAYS 1269-1273 (Restricted)

Arago, François

 Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men 1859

Argenbright, A. G.

 Augusta County: A. G. Argenbright to Captain F. C. Roberts, November 24, 1861 1861-11-24

Aristotle

 ANALYTICA POSTERIORA

 ANALYTICA PRIORA

 DE ANIMA

 DE CAELO

 CATEGORIAE

 ETHICA NICOMACHEA

 DE DIVINATIONE PER SOMNUM

 DE GENERATIONE ANIMALIUM

 DE GENERATIONE ET CORRUPTIONE

 HISTORIA ANIMALIUM

 DE INCESSU ANIMALIUM

 DE INTERPRETATIONE

 DE IUVENTUTE ET SENECTUTE, DE VITA ET MORTE, DE RESPIRATIONE

 DE LONGITUDINE ET BREVITATE VITAE

 DE MEMORIA ET REMINISCENTIA

 METAPHYSICA

 METEOROLOGICA

 DE MOTU

 Aristotle on the art of poetry

 DE PARTIBUS ANIMALIUM

 PHYSICA

 POLITICA

 RHETORICA

 DE SENSU ET SENSIBILI

 DE SOMNIIS

 DE SOMNO ET VIGILIA

 DE SOPHISTICIS ELENCHIS

 ARISTOTLE'S THOERY OF POETRY AND FINE ART WITH A CRITICAL TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF THE POETICS

 TOPICA

 A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE

Armitt, Elizabeth

 Will of Elizabeth Armitt 1798

Armsworthy, John Wesley

 Augusta County: John Wesley Armsworthy to E. J. Armsworthy, June 25, 1863 1862-06-25

Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935.

 Gulliver of Mars 1905

Arnold, Matthew

 Civilisation in the United States 1888

Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568

 The Scholemaster / Roger Ascham 1570

Astor, John Jacob

 A Journey in Other Worlds 1894

Atherton, Gertrude

 Rezánov 1906

 The Sacrificial Altar 1916

Augustine

 The Confessions of St. Augustine 397 C.E.

 City of God 426 C.E.

Ault, John

 Franklin County: John Ault to John Stewart, January 11, 1863 1863-01-11

Aurelius, Marcus

 The Meditations 167 C.E.

Austen, Jane

 Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796-1817

 Pride and Prejudice 1796-1812

 Northanger Abbey 1798-1817

 Sense and Sensibility 1811

 Mansfield Park 1814

 Emma 1815

 Sanditon 1817

 Persuasion 1818

 Letter from Jane Austin to Miss Dickinson, October 10, 1889 1889 (Restricted)

 Letter from Jane Austin to Mr. Sanders, April 06, 1892 1892 (Restricted)

Austin review: Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936

 Mary Austin 1911

Austin, James C.

 Franklin County: James C. Austin to John Stewart, November 22, 1862 1862-11-22

 Franklin County: James C. Austin to Thomas M. Vincent, February 16, 1863 1863-02-16

Austin, Mary

 The Mother of Felipe November 1892

 The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing October 1897

 The Wooing of the Señorita March 1897

 Inyo 1899

 "The Gods of the Saxon" 1900

 A Shepherd of the Sierras 1900

 The Pot of Gold 1901

 The Rhyme of the Pronghorns. January 1901

 The Rocky Mountain Sheep. September 1900

 The Sand-Hill Crane. October 1900

 The Shepherds in Judea. December 1900

 The Deer-star (A Paiute Legend). February, 1901

 Winter in the Sierras. December 1901

 Jimville: A Bret Harte Town 1902

 The Lighthouse and the Whistling-Buoy. October 1902

 A Pipe Of Oaten Straw 1902

 The Basket Maker 1903

 Hunting Weather. October 1903

 A Land of Little Rain 1903

 The Land of Little Rain 1903

 The Last Antelope 1903

 The Little Coyote 1902

 The Little Town of the Grape Vines 1903

 The Search for Jean Baptiste 1903

 Signs of Spring. April 1903

 Spring in the Valley. May 1903

 The White Hour April 1903

 Blue-eyed Grass. June 1904

 Mahala Joe 1904

 The Hoodoo of the Minnietta 1907

 The Return of Mr. Wills 1907

 The Walking Woman 1907

 Spring o' the Year 1908

 Agua Dulce 28 August 1909

 The Woman at Eighteen-Mile 25 Sept. 1909

 An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist 1911

 Indian Songs 1911

 Medicine Song: To Be Sung in Time of Evil Fortune September 1911

 The Song of the Hills: Being the Song of a Man and a Woman Who Might Have Loved October 1911

 The Song-Makers 1911

 Frustrate 1912

 The Song of the Friend January 1912

 Medicine Songs 1914

 Art Influence in the West 1915

 The Politeness of Questa la Platta / By Mary Austin 1923

 Bitterness of Women 1996

Austin, Mary: Review: Anonymous

 Mary Austin 1912

 "The Realism of Mary Austin" and "A New Definition of Genius" 1912

 "A Woman of Genius" by Mary Austin 1913

Avis, John

 Augusta County: John Avis to Kenton Harper, June 18, 1861 1861-06-18

Awde, Thomas

 Freedmen's Bureau Records: Thomas Awde to [Thomas P. Jackson], April 30, 1867 1867-04-30

Ayres, Romeyn B.

 Hatcher's Run, 210th Pa. Infantry, Reports of Bvt. Maj. Gen. Romeyn B. Ayres, February 14, 1865 1865-02-14