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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Stray Sunbeam: A Compilation Of Selections From The Youth's Essay |
| Date | 1854 |
| Record ID | 221419 |
| Collection Name | Theme Based Selections |
| Reference | CL S9138 S957 1854 |
| Theme | Illness and Death Race, Ethnicity and Racism Temperance and Addiction |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Poetry Children and death Dance Slavery Temperance War |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Author | Vose, Ziba Pope (1835-1916) McIntosh, Cynthia I (1835-1860) Perry, Henry Fales (1834-) White, S Frances Youth's Educational Union |
| Places | United States; Rockland, ME |
| Document Type | Anthology |
| Book Type | Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1854 Blocked bindings (Binding) Juvenile literature--1854 Anthologies Folk tales--1854 Juvenilia Poems--1854 |
| Size | xv, [2], 18-218, [2] p. ; 18 cm |
| Additional Notes | Edited By Z Pope Vose, Cynthia I Mcintosh, Henry F Perry, S Frances White |
| Catalog Notes | "Since the organization of the Association under whose auspices this work goes forth, (on the evening of January 22, 1853,) its members have sustained a small manuscript paper, entitled the 'Youth's essay,' which has received their compositions and has been read at their weekly meetings, and this volume is composed of selections from its columns."--Preface, p. [v]-x, signed by Z. Pope Vose, Henry F. Perry, Cynthia I. McIntosh, and S. Frances White, and dated at Rockland, June, 1854. A contributor's list matching pseudonyms to actual names appears on p. [xi]. Includes essays, stories, and poems, most of them written by members of the Youth's Educational Union. Some essays concern social issues, including dancing, slavery, temperance, and war. "To Rev. S.C. Fessenden"--dedication, p. [iii]. The Maine register for 1855 lists Rev. Samuel C. Fessenden, a Congregationalist minister living in Rockland, Maine. Last page blank. In blue cloth. "The three spinsters. (Translated from the German of Grimm.)"--p. [23]-26. "Lines on the death of Captain Oliver Brown, who died at Nassau, Sept. 5, 1853." (in verse)--p. [104]-105. Editor's note explaining the rise in the printing cost, and lack of proofreading corrections appears on p. [219]. |
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