Author : Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1312812575
The Dering Family settled on Shelter Island in 1761 and endured crop failures, revolution, and the difficulties of a new nation. Throughout it all they raised their children, emphasizing good manner, civility and mostly education. These letters deal with business and family matters.
Author : Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 131270313X
The Dering letters involve members of the family from 1733 to 1838. Henry Dering arrived in America in the mid-1600. He began as a bar keep in a small village in New Hampshire and ended up as a merchant in Boston, a business that he left to his only son, who in turn left it to his two sons. The business was lost to fire and bad credit and Thomas took his wife and child to the 1,000 acre estate on Shelter Island the wife and her sister had inherited.Three generations lived and worked there through the Revolution and the beginnings of a new nation before a tragic death caused the family to sell.
Author : Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 131281263X
The Dering family of Boston moved to Shelter Island in 1762 and lived through crop failures, revolution, and the difficulties of a new nation. The three volumes consist of over 762 letters that deal with business and family matters. Over 220, or nearly 30%%, of them were written by the women of the family.
Author : Gary S. De Krey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1137052287
Charles II was restored to the rule of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1660, less than twelve years after the execution of his father, Charles I, and the ensuing republican experiment in government. Popular at first, the Restoration nevertheless failed to provide lasting settlement in any of the British kingdoms. Restoration and Revolution in Britain examines the political history of these kingdoms, from the Interregnum through Britain's eighteenth-century rise to power. Written especially for students approaching the Restoration for the first time, this essential introduction: - Assesses the reasons for the failure of settlement in the reigns of Charles and of his brother, James II - Integrates the histories of Charles's different realms - Examines the many connections between politics and Protestant religious disagreements - Provides helpful historical context for understanding a range of contemporary authors such as Bunyan, Locke and Milton - Concludes with an examination of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 and explains why settlement was finally achieved through revolution rather than through restoration
Author : sir Thomas Phillipps (bart.)
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 1837
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sir Thomas Phillipps
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520906071
Here is young Sam Clemens—in the world, getting famous, making love—in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was—from San Francisco to New York, to St. Louis, and then to Paris, Naples, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Yalta, and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and on to lecturing in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. Resplendent with wit, love of life, ambition, and literary craft, this new volume in the wonderful Bancroft Library edition of Mark Twain's Letters will delight and inform both scholars and general readers. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mark Twain Foundation, Jane Newhall, and The Friends of The Bancroft Library.
Author : Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1312856823
A compilation, with commentary, of letters written by women to members of the Dering family of Shutter Island, New York, between 1734 and 1838. The letters are primarily compiled from the Dering Collection of letters at the Shelter Island Historical Society. The compilation also includes a few letters written to women of the Dering family.
Author : Messrs. Evans (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Patricia and Edward Shillingburg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2015-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1329646614
The first generation of young people following the Revolution were full of hope and anxious to stretch their wings through education and adventure. We know the Dering family's activities because the father Sylvester who saved his letters also wrote of family affairs to his son Nicoll who also saved his letters. These are stories of nine young people (all of whom are related, save one) told through their letters. Abraham Tuthill aspired to be a portrait painter; Frances Dering and Frances Sage would forge a deep bond; Sisters Catherine and Frances Huntington shared a school in New York; Charles Thomas Dering invested in the Union, a whaling ship; Mary L'Hommedieu suffered financially as a child; Margaret Dering married a man who was disowned by his father for seeking a career as a preacher; Eliza Gardiner found comfort in a kind man.
