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Papers of the Pritchard family comprises correspondence, photographs, certificates, family trees, ephemera, news clippings, publications and realia relating to the Pritchard family in St Helena, South Africa, Britain and Australia.
Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former's 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum. By the 1920s most accounts of Mrs. Lincoln focused on her negative qualities and dismissed her as "crazy." Bradwell's granddaughter Myra Helmer Pritchard wrote this distinctly sympathetic manuscript at the behest of her mother, who wished to vindicate Mary Lincoln in the public eye by printing the private correspondence. Pritchard fervently defends Mrs. Lincoln's conduct and sanity, arguing that she was not insane but rather the victim of an overzealous son who had his mother committed. The manuscript and letters were thought to have been destroyed, but fortunately the Lincolns' family lawyer stored copies in a trunk, where historian Jason Emerson discovered them in 2005. While leaving the manuscript intact, Emerson has enhanced it with an introduction and detailed annotations. He fills in factual gaps; provides background on names, places, and dates; and analyzes Pritchard's interpretations, making clear where she was right and where her passion to protect Mrs. Lincoln led to less than meticulous research and incorrect conclusions. This volume features an easy-to-follow format that showcases Pritchard's text on the left-hand pages and Emerson's insightful annotations on the right-hand pages. Following one of the most revered and reviled, famous and infamous of the First Ladies, this book provides a unique perspective of Mrs. Lincoln's post-White House years, with an emphasis on her commitment to a sanitarium. Emerson's contributions make this volume a valuable addition to the study of the Lincoln family. This fascinating work gives today's Lincoln enthusiasts the chance to read this intriguing interpretation of the former First Lady that predates nearly every other book written about her.
Three Christmas pageants intended primarily for child performers but flexible enough to accomodate all age groups and both large and small casts.
William H. Harris (1836-1904), the progenitor of this family, was born at Common Moor, Cornwall, England. He was the son of Thomas Harris and Susanna Hooper. He married Lavinia Willy (Willey) (1836-1915), daughter of Peter Willey and Honour Nicholas, 1856. She was born in Trenihick? and baptized in the Anglican Parish of St. Agnes, near Truro in Cornwall County. Family immigrated to America in 1859-1860. They lived first in Greensboro, Guildford Co., North Carolina. Family moved from North Carolina to Pennsylvania ca. 1861, from there to Virginia (now W.Va.) to Kentucky, to Maryland, and to Scranton, Osage Co., Kansas. Descendants live in Maryland, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oklahoma, Arizona and elsewhere. David Pritchard (1824-1888) was born in Monmouthshire, South Wales, the son of Samuel Pritchard. He married 1847 in Pontypool, Parish of Trevethin, Monmouth, Wales, Louisa Waite (1826-1894). They came to Allegany Co., Maryland in 1854/1855. Frederick Knippenberg (1813-1871) was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, the son of Henry Knippenberg, a Lutheran Minister. He married 1853 Rachel Coulter (b. 1830). They emigrated in Dec. 1856, and lived first in Wellersburg, Somerset Co., Pa. and then in Allegany Co., Md.
The more we learn, the less we know. Since the publication of the third edition of The Pritchard Family History in 2006, several discoveries make it clear that Thomas Pritchard, the immigrant of our line, was not, as earlier believed, the carpenter for the London Company who arrived on the ship Abigaile in 1620. New details about the immigrant Thomas Pritchard allow the reader to disregard conjectures found in past editions and consolidate the known facts into the true biography. This new information does not in any way gloss over the contributions of earlier researchers who spent hours validating the information contained in these pages. Because court records relied on the clerk's command of the language, the surnames of the early settlers varied in spelling. The immigrant family arrived as Pricket or Prichet, but the surname appears in official documents as Pritchard, Prichard, Pritchet, Prichett, Pricket, Prickett, and Pritchardt. Ever since Thomas Sr. of Loudoun County, Virginia has adopted Pritchard as the preferred spelling. The primary residences of the Pritchard family were in Virginia and the portion that became West Virginia after the Civil War. A wealth of facsimile reprints of vintage photographs and several maps add to the value of this work.
Volume 13 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he becomes head of the Carolina Life Insurance Company of Memphis and attempts to gain a financial foothold for his newly reunited family. Having lost everything in the Civil War and spent two years immediately afterwards in federal prison, Davis faced a mounting array of financial woes, health problems, and family illnesses and tragedies in the 1870s. Despite setbacks during this decade, Davis also began a quest to rehabilitate his image and protect his historical legacy. Although his position with the insurance company provided temporary financial stability, Davis resigned after the Panic of 1873 forced the sale of the company and its new owners canceled payments to Carolina policyholders. He left for England the following year in search of employment and to recuperate from ongoing illnesses. In 1876, Davis became president of the London-based Mississippi Valley Society and relocated to New Orleans to run the company. Throughout the 1870s, Davis waged an expensive and seemingly endless legal battle to regain his prewar Mississippi plantation, Brierfield. He also began working on his memoirs at Beauvoir, the Gulf Coast estate of a family friend. Though disfranchised, Davis addressed the subject of politics with more frequency during this decade, criticizing the Reconstruction policies of the federal government while defending the South and the former Confederacy. The volume ends with Davis's inheritance of Beauvoir, which was his last home. The editors have drawn from over one hundred manuscript repositories and private collections in addition to numerous published sources in compiling Volume 13.
An overbearing older sibling can really be a bear, but the child in this understated, gently humorous story finds out that they can have their advantages, too. "I live with a bear," the story's young narrator declares. The bear is loud, messy, uncouth, and very strong (too strong!). For some reason, his parents treat the bear like family, despite his protests. Why can't they see? Then he runs into some bullies on the playground. When the bear ROOAARS with all her might and scares them away, he realizes that there are advantages to having a bear in the family. In a delightful twist, the narrator's older sister (the bear) appears, telling him that she is NOT a bear. But if she is, HE is too--because two bears are even better than one!