Item 1: The Spectator (removed to Black Box #1) , 1712 March 10

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 10

Staff Only

Dates

Created: 1712 March 10

Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities

Some of the name and subject authority tags have been assigned by educated guessing and estimation of persons and subjects by region, age, profession, and familial relationships. They have been thoroughly researched by using primary and secondary sources available digitally, and named in each description, or in some cases linked directly to the person tag.

Access:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Newspaper.

Condition Note:

Fair, the material has some stains from age.

Measurements:

8 x 12 in.

Title:

The Spectator.

Description:

The Monday, March 10, 1712 edition of The Spectator newspaper. The Spectator was created by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in 1711 as a way to reach a wide ranging audience with philosophical ideas of the Enlightenment. The newspaper includes a letter to the editor from a woman detailing issues of her marriage. The back contains advertisements for a comedy show, wine, engravings, a small-pox cure, and drops for “hypocondriack melancholly” [sic].