Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841- Relating to (SC 28)

Finding aid and scan (Click on additional files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 28. William Henry Harrison campaign ribbon badge used for advertising during the 1840 presidential campaign, often referred to as the log cabin and hard cider campaign

A Hybrid Edition for the Available Man: Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Papers of William Henry Harrison, 1800-1815\u3c/i\u3e,ed. Douglas E. Clanin and Ruth Dorrel.

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) is an early American example of that perennial political type, the Available Man. How else to explain the success of a public figure whose first elective office (as territorial delegate to Congress) was won by a margin of one vote; whose fortunes as governor of the Indiana Territory (1801-1812) waned longer than they waxed; whose pinnacle of glory at Tippecanoe endures in the national memory more as a limerick than a battle; and who reaped the political dividends of that battle only after twenty-five years, in a presidential campaign waged primarily by the conspicuous avoidance of controversial issues? None of this is intended to impugn our ninth president\u27s historical significance. Much less is it intended to diminish what Douglas Clanin and Ruth Dorrel have accomplished in compiling the definitive microfilm edition dedicated to the most historically significant years of Harrison\u27s career (1800-1815). The deliberate irony of the above sketch, rather, is a playful nod to the essentially hybrid nature of The Papers of William Henry Harrison, 1800- 1815

Emma Martin and the manhandled womb in early Victorian England

Emma Martin (née Bullock) was born in 1811 and died in 1851. She was a socialist and freethinker. As a child she was strongly religious and at the age of seventeen joined the Particular Baptists – a Calvanist grouping. She remained a believer for a further twelve years. In 1831 she married the Baptist Isaac Luther Martin and they had three daughters. She was very unhappy in the marriage and started to deliver lectures on the role of women. In 1839 she attended her first Owenite social meeting – she was powerfully ambivalent toward the radical views she heard there and she attacked their anti-religious ideas despite their endorsement of her pro women feelings. At the end of that year Isaac moved the family to London and she left him and became a lecturer for the Owenites at a small stipend. This paper begins by examining a remarkable text, published in 1844, which rejected a phallocentric view of religion. Her tract Baptism: a Pagan Rite is inspired by a tradition of comparative religion which had been developed and popularised by anti-clerical comparisons of Catholicism with pagan worship made around the time of the French Revolution. However, other works in this genre, such as Payne Knight’s Priapus (1786) frame their vision of ancient religion around the primacy of phallicism as the central expression of primitive fertility cults and thence as underlying modern Catholic practice. Emma Martin’s work, by contrast, reframed the discussion in two important ways. Firstly, she focussed upon her own experience as a former Baptist so as to sustain a sexualised reading of that denomination. Secondly, her reading centred on the baptismal pool as a womb in which the sinner was reborn. Contemporary accounts critical of baptism indicate that the occasion was feared to be an opportunity for sexual impriority. Martin appears to have seen the act of baptism as an often co-erced fertility ritual. Her other pamphlets, of which several survive, are not directly on gendered themes, but are strongly against religion. Her most active period of writing and speaking lasted until 1845 after which she left the movement to become a midwife. She spent her last years lecturing on gynaecology before dying of tuberculosis in 1851. She thus demonstrated the importance of the womb and its order and disorder as a core element in her practice and sense of duty. By thinking with the womb, she was able to place the female generative process – and its abuses at the hands of men – at the centre of her view of the operation of contemporary society. In this she is strikingly different to other writers of the time on comparative religion who either downplayed the womb as compared with the phallus, or who seem to have regarded the womb as somehow abject

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (SC 1222)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1222. Letter written by Henry Clay, Ashland, Kentucky, to Henry Henion(?), Rushville, New York. Clay responds to a letter received from the Rushville Tippecanoe Club regarding his opinion of the presidential contest between Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison

Chambliss Collection (MSS 152)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 152. Collection includes memoirs of Issachar Bates; Shaker letters; correspondence of Emma B. Chambliss; prescriptions and remedies; newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous items

Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (SC 69)

Finding aid and scan (Click on additional files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 69. Letter, 2 October 1812, written by Isaac Shelby, Frankfort, Kentucky to Colonel George Thompson, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in which he discusses the conditions of the U.S. Army and then remarks about the Kentucky Volunteers of which Thompson\u27s son was a member

Mrs Alicia Moore, dedicatee of Henry Rowland Brown’s 1859 guidebook Beauties of Lyme Regis

The 1859 second edition of the guidebook The Beauties of Lyme Regis, by Henry Rowland Brown (1837-1921) of Lyme Regis, was dedicated to ‘Mrs Moore’. She is identified here as Alicia Anne Moore née Radford (bap. 1790-1873), Sheffield-born author and novelist, who was descended from the Lymen (or Leman or Lemman) family of Lyme Regis. She may have been a friend of George Roberts (bap. 1804-60), Lyme historian and mayor. Her peripatetic life with her second husband Robert Moore, spent partly overseas and in the Channel Islands (with good links to Lyme Regis), apparently arose from a disastrous first marriage and a technically bigamous second marriage

Index to the Acts & Resolves of Rhode Island 1758-1850 Part 2 (H-O)

Part 2 (H-O): Index to the Printed Acts and Resolves, and of the petitions and reports to the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, from the year 1758-1850. That the Secretary of State be directed to complete, or cause to be completed, the Alphabetical Index to the Schedules from the year 1828 to the year 1850 inclusive, in the same manner as the Index to the volumes of the preceding years has been made; and that when completed, there shall be printed under his direction, two hundred and fifty copies of the same, the expense to be paid out of the General Treasury upon the order of the Governor