Pamphlet Collection
This is a collection of paper-covered print publications in Special Collections at the Cedarville University Centennial Library. The collection encompasses a variety of materials, including booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, tracts, government documents, speeches, sermons, etc.
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The New England Primer
Full title: The New England primer, improved, for the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added, The Assembly of Divines' Catechism. With other useful and pleasing matter
circa 1800
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The New England Primer
Full title: The New England primer, improved, for the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added, The Assembly of Divines' Catechism. With other useful and pleasing matter
1800
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The Doctrine of Baptism
William Dell
Full title: The doctrine of baptism: reduced from its ancient and modern corruptions, and restored to its primitive soundness and integrity; according to the Word of truth, the substance of faith and the nature of Christ's Kingdom
1815
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The Wishing Cap
May Martha Sherwood
With The Wishing Cap, Sherwood promotes God's love over material objects. When a group of children are given the chance to make wishes for anything they want, the story implies that God's love is enough.
circa 1819
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Little Susan and Her Lamb
Unknown author
Excerpt: One fine summer's morning, little Susan's mother called her to come and have her breakfast. She took her porringer, and sat down on a green bank near the cottage door to eat the bread and milk she had that morning and liked it very much, as she did not always have milk for breakfast.
1824
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Little Sally of the Sunday School
Unknown author
Excerpt: One fine Sunday morning, while the bells were ringing to call the people to church, a very little girl, called Sally, was swinging on a gate by the way-side. Sally was covered with rags, her face and hands were dirty, and she had neither shoes nor stockings.
circa 1825
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The Christian Drummer
Unknown author
Part of the American Tract Society's Sabbath School Series. Full title: The Christian Drummer, Giving an Account of What Happened in a Town in Scotland Where He Was Stationed
circa 1825
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The Penitent Children
Unknown author
Excerpt: A little boy, about six years old, was in general a very good child, and behaved well. He dearly loved his mother, and minded every thing she said to him. But even good children, and good people, will sometimes do wrong; and this little boy did so too.
circa 1825
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Little Ann: An Authentic Narrative
Richard Marks
Alternate title: Little Ann: An Authentic Narrative in Three Letters to a Friend
circa 1827
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Louisa's Tenderness to the Little Birds in Winter
Arnaud Berquin
Translation of a story from the author's L'Ami des enfants
circa 1827
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The Abridged Bible Cathechism
William Freeman Lloyd
Full title: The abridged Bible catechism : arranged in forty divisions : all the answers to the questions being in the exact words of Scripture : intended for the religious instruction of the young, both in families and schools
1827
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Cinderella
Full title: Cinderella, or, the Little Glass Slipper
Half-title: Cinderella and Her Little Glass Slipper
1829
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Communication of Wm. Harper and Thomas R. Dew
Full title: Communication of Wm. Harper and Thomas R. Dew : in relation to the memorial of the Committee of the Free Trade Convention against the tariff
1832
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My Mother's Gold Ring
Lucius Manlius Sargent
Full title: My Mother's Gold Ring. Founded on Fact
Sixteenth Edition (cover reads Fourteenth Edition)
1833
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United States' Table Book
Full title: United States' table book : with a short and easy explanation of the principal rules, etc. for the use of schools and private tuition
1833
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Wild Dick and Good Little Robin
Lucius Manlius Sargent
Excerpt: Richard Wild and Robert Little were born on two pleasantly situated home- steads, that bounded on each other. Their parents, though differing essentially in their habits of life, were good neighbors. There were but a few weeks' difference between the ages of these children...
1833
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Advantages of a Gold Currency
Full title: Advantages of a Gold Currency. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in Reply to Mr. Clay's Resolution Calling for the State of the Revenue, Mr. Benton's Speech, on the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Correspondence Between the Citizens of Addison County, Vermont, and Mr. Rush, on the Subject of the Bank of the United States
1834
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Mediation of Great Britain - French Affairs
Andrew Jackson
Full title: Mediation of Great Britain - French affairs : message from the President of the United States
1836
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Speech of Mr. Moore, of New York
Ely Moore
Full title: Speech of Mr. Moore, of New York, on the bill imposing additional duties, as depositories in certain cases on public officers, delivered in the House of Representatives, October 13, 1837
1837
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The Slave's Friend
The Slave's Friend (1836-1838) was an anti-slavery magazine for children produced by the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS). The short-lived magazine was the first abolitionist magazine targeted to a juvenile audience in the United States.
circa 1837
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The Southern Primer
A Parent
Full title: The southern primer : a series of progressive lessons, in the first rudiments of learning designed for the nursery and infant schools
1837
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The American Polite Letter Writer
John Kenedy
Full title: The American polite letter writer : containing about sixty letters written in the most fashionable style
1839
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The Crisis Met
William G. Boggs
Full title: The Crisis Met: A Reply to Junius
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by William G. Boggs, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of the State of New York.
1840
