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Fable for Critics
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Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate A fable for critics ... A glance at a few of our literary progenies ... from The tub of Diogenes ; a vocal and musical medley ... set forth in October, the 21st day, in the year '48
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Report on the field work with the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley expedition of 1934
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This is a mimeographed copy of the official report resulting from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1934. These expeditions, which were privately funded and headed by Ansel Franklin Hall, took place from 1933-1938. The work was supervised by Lyndon Hargrave of the Museum of Northern Arizona and the crew consisted of archaeologists, paleontologists, botanists, biologists, and geologists. The report details the group's findings from their archaeological surveys and excavations of several early Anasazi (Pueblo) sites in northern Arizona and southern Utah. It also gives a detailed description of the geology of the region including Monument Valley, Navajo National Monument, the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park, and concludes with a chapter on the modern Indians of the region, the Hopi and Navajo. Also included are maps and seventy-two mounted original photographs. The forward is by Ansel Franklin Hall
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James Russell Lowell collection
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A collection of correspondence and manuscripts written by James Russell Lowell, including essays, poems, and short stories; included is an essay on Herbert Spencer, the poems "In Far Japan" and "At the Exhibition," and a short story, "Uncle Cobus's Story." The collection also includes two forgeries, the poems "And again to the child..." and "Zekle crep' up quite unknown." The correspondence includes letters to and from James T. Fields, John Fiske, William Leonard Gage, Arthur Gilman, George W. Smalley, George Ticknor, and John Greenleaf Whittier. A number of the manuscripts and letters are window mounted on pages removed from albums, some letters with envelopes.
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