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Note: this is an original, historically significant handwritten diary by a young British girl who observes and records the atrocities of the first Arab uprising. As such this is guaranteed to be authentic and not a copy, replica or facsimile.
THE DIARY OFDOREEN C.
Evidential to the roots of Middle Eastern terror, this is the extraordinary handwritten diary of Miss Doreen M. C., daughter of General and Mrs. J. C., sister of Cynthia. This British family witnesses the very beginnings of the modern era of Middle East tensions and terrorism having been residents of Jerusalem from January 1st to mid-June of 1936. Doreen writes one of the most exciting, insightful and well written diaries we have ever come across. A girl of 16 or 17 we estimate (too young for boys - she detests them - and too old for the usual games that girls play [paraphrase]) writes of her time spent travelling throughout British mandated Palestine recording daily her comings and goings and more importantly all that goes on around her. She also does a great job drawing maps and other illustrations to further enhance her writings.
In a handwritten copy of a 1963 letter to the famed Leonard Mosley of the Sunday Times found in the book she admits to having in 1936 a passion for keeping a large diary; I wrote down incidents of the strike, riots, and daily murders and ambushes like a recording angel! She is being very modest. Historians and buffs will recognize 1936 as a very intense, very interesting an ...
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HISTORICAL RARE BOOK & THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY / INVENTORY / RESEARCH ARCHIVE.
INSTANT HISTORICAL and THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY containing in-part over 30,000 books and pamphlets.
Over 1650 feet of books and ephemera shelved and available for inspection. Also 230 boxes packed full.
Many First Editions and Early Printings by noted theologians & authors including: John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Alexander Campbell, George Whitefield, John Calvin, Roger Williams, Lorenzo Dow, A. J. Gordon, Sam Jones, D. L. Moody, Jacob Catlin, Jonathan Edwards, William Gladstone, Robert Lewis Dabney, J. William Jones, William Styron and Archibald Rutledge.
[Whitefield, George] [18th century American Imprints] A collection of twenty seven rare pamphlets mostly opposed to the preaching of George Whitefield printed during the great pamphlet wars occasioned by the Great Awakening in New England, 1740-1745.
Good books and ephemera on African-American / Black history & dialect, Alcoholics Anonymous, American history, Church history, Bibles & Translations, Books about Books & Book Collecting, Concordances, Juvenile, Lexicons, Literature, Native-Americans, Natural history, Nautical / Naval history, Philosophy, Reference, Religious Biography, Sermons, Theology, Travel, Virginia history, Western Americana, and World history.
Five four-drawer file cabinets filled with uncounted thousands of papers & pamphlets of research material collected over fifty years; incl ...
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