Search Results: The Lesson Of the Hour by Edward J Young

Ivison, Phinney & Co, 1869. Hardcover. Acceptable. [Mid-19th Century American Education] Publisher's binding. Spine leather chipped at edges. Some foxing. Binding weak. Contents: 384 pages : music ; 19 cm.Contents: Articulation --Accent and emphasis --Inflections --Modulation --The rhetorical pause --Knowledge better than wealth / Mrs. Barbauld --Prairie dogs / W. Irving --A mother's advice to her son / Madam Campan --The light of home / Mrs. Hale --My father's at the helm / Anon. --The honest young lawyer and his client / Rev. John Todd --Sources of success in business / Rev. John Angell James --All can do good / Catharine Talbot --Who is my neighbor / Anon. --The blind boy / Rev. F. L. Hawks --The teacher's fable / Mrs. Emily C. Judson --The two roads / Jean Paul Richter --The youthful voyager / J. T. Headley --Let virtue be your aim / C. Jillson --The voice of nature / Krummacher --Theory and practice / Jane Taylor --To-morrow / Anon. --Procrast/ Charles Mackay --Injudicious… Read More

Large archive of personal and family correspondence consisting of 1,144 letters, 4,183 manuscript and typescript pages, approximately 85 related ephemeral items, 3 account, scrap and notebooks, 4 photographs.
Archive of correspondence and personal papers of Richard M. Colgate and Henry Auchincloss Colgate, scions of the Colgate family, founders of the present-day Colgate-Palmolive, global household, and consumer products company.
Richard Morse Colgate born 21 March 1854 in New York City was the son of Samuel M. Colgate (1822-1897) son of William Colgate, took over the family soap business after his father's death in 1857 and reorganized it into Colgate & Company. His son Richard, in time was president of Colgate & Company.
The letters detail the lives of the Colgate family then living in Llewelleyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, their interactions with their friends and neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, and other industrial magnates. The Colgate's discuss… Read More