Research Catalog

Title

Our day : A gift for the times. Edited by J. G. Adams.

Author

Adams, John G. (John Greenleaf), 1810-1887

Publication

Boston : B.B. Mussey & Co., 1848.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
• Sharp, William, 1803-1875
• B.B. Mussey and Company, publisher
• Damrell & Moore, printer

Description

288 pages, [1] leaf of plates; 17 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Gift books
• African Americans
• Church and social problems
• Social problems

Note

• Prose and poetry.
• With an added chromolithographed title page, signed: W. Sharp's Lith.
• "Boston: Printed by Damrell and Moore, no. 52 Washington-Street."--verso of title page.
• "The reward. By J.G. Whittier."--pages [62]-63.

Indexed In (note)

• Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature
• Faxon, F.W. Literary annuals and gift books
• Thompson, R. American literary annuals & gift books, 1825-1865

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Reform / Rev. J. Wesley Hanson -- Reform and reformers / Rev. Moses Ballou -- Interested opposers of moral reforms / Rev. A.R. Abbott -- The gallows shall be cast down / J.G. Adams -- Night and morning / Rev. T.L. Harris -- The redeemed husband / Mrs. Mary A. Livermore -- The reward / J.G. Whittier -- Death of N.P. Rogers / J.G. Adams -- The alleged inferiority of the African race / Rev. C. Stetson -- The fugitive slave / Rev. Henry Bacon -- A glimpse -- Anniversary week in Boston / J.G. Adams -- To Frederick Douglass / J.G. Adams -- The criminal / Rev. Charles Spear -- A prisoner's death / James Lumbard -- Fourier and his social system / Horace Greeley -- A prayer / James Lumbard -- The beavers / Rev. Theodore Parker -- Democracy / J.G. Adams -- A demon to be exorcised / Rev. G.G. Strickland -- The pulpit and popular reforms / Rev. A.D. Mayo -- Thomas Clarkson / J.G. Adams -- Christianity / Rev. Day K. Lee -- Responsibility of the traffic in spirits / H. Ballou, 2d, D.D. -- The Hutchinsons / Rev. A. Hichborn -- The moving spirit of reform / J.W. Brown, Esq. -- The reformer and the redeemer -- One idea / Rev. W.R.G. Mellen -- Patriotism / Rev. T.S. King -- Our country, right or wrong -- The dialect of reform / Rev. Henry Bacon -- "Thy kingdom come" / Mrs. S.C.E. Mayo -- The idolatry of party / Rev. E.H. Chapin -- God's law: man's interpretation of it / S.E. Coues, Esq. -- "Thy kingdom come" / Rev. W.P. Tilden -- Song of prophecy / J.G. Adams -- A sermon for every-day life.

Call Number

Sc Rare 261-A (Adams, J. G. Our day)

LCCN

06007129

OCLC

• 1892387
• NYPGR1892387-B

Author

Adams, John G. (John Greenleaf), 1810-1887, editor.

Title

Our day : A gift for the times. Edited by J. G. Adams.

Publisher

Boston : B.B. Mussey & Co., 1848.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 21758

Faxon, F.W. Literary annuals and gift books, 628

Thompson, R. American literary annuals & gift books, 1825-1865, page 146

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 261-A (accession no. B594384) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. Reward.

B.B. Mussey and Company, publisher.

Damrell & Moore, printer.

Sharp, William, 1803-1875, lithographer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 261-A (Adams, J. G. Our day)

NBF (Adams, J. G. Our day)