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[Rich is the life which seeks a noble end].

A poem about helping others. The selfless person "wins Heaven's approval, gains true success."

GLC05508.018

to Ashley O'Rorke

The Earl of Shaftesbury Anthony Cooper writes to his godson, Ashley O'Rorke, to express happiness that O'Rorke has recovered from an recent illness, but also to point out that he should learn what a blessing health is from the experience. Cooper...

GLC05508.074.05

to the Bishop of Albany

Suggests possible reforms to help arrest the rising rate of divorce. Dix first establishes a difference between holy matrimony and secular matrimony. He proposes six reforms including publication of bans, a state license requirement, discouraging...

GLC05508.086

America

Smith enclosed this copy of the words to America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) with a letter to J. Wiley Edmands (GLC05508.230.01).

GLC05508.230.02

to Rev. H.W. Tucker

British Prime Minster Gladstone comments on the Colonial Episcopate.

GLC05508.110.02

[I have found every system of political religion...]

Howitt quotes the "History of Priestcraft," 3rd ed. p. 364: "I have found every system of political religion so hostile to the growth of true knowledge, so destructive of popular freedom and happiness, that I have been constrained to cry vehemently...

GLC05508.139

to Mrs. Harrison

Booth thanks Harrison for her donation to the Salvation Army.

GLC05508.045

to J. Bok

Howard received the Beecher Memorial and read many of the contributions. He accepted the book as thanks for his contribution. He believes Mrs. Holloway's article best captured Beecher in concise and comprehensive terms. He also refuses to write an...

GLC05508.135

[Photograph of Edward Vernon Rickenbacker]

A photograph of an older Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. He is photographed in a suit and tie.

GLC05508.010.02.02

to Mrs. Robertson

Apologizes for not paying her account for April and inquires whether she paid her for the last "Peptonized Cocoa." Mentions welfare of friends.

GLC05508.196