A note on a founding father's library: the books of Benjamin Giles: Historical New Hampshire/ by Richard Noyes.
- Title:
- A note on a founding father's library: the books of Benjamin Giles: Historical New Hampshire/ by Richard Noyes.
- Author:
- Noyes, Richard,
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1979.
- Physical Description:
- p.244-252.
- Source:
- Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1979 Vol. 34, issue 3/4 (Winter 1979) Historical New Hampshire
- Description:
- The article discusses books owned by Benjamin Giles, a founder of the city of Newport, New Hampshire and member of New Hampshire's constitutional draft committee. The author identifies several of his books based on an inventory of belogings in his will. The author reflets on the prominence of Calvinist works iin Giles's library.
- Subjects:
- Libraries Inventories. , Calvinism in literature.
- People:
- Giles, Benjamin.
- Organizations:
- New Hampshrie Historical Society Periodicals History.
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