North American Phalanx (Monmouth County, New Jersey), 1843
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Description
- Title
- North American Phalanx (Monmouth County, New Jersey), 1843
- Creator
- From the Collection: Macdonald, A. J., -1854
- Contributor
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From the Collection: Ballou, Adin, 1803-1890
From the Collection: Finch, John, 1783-1857
From the Collection: Greig, John, 1779-1858
From the Collection: McDiarmid, William, 1792-1888
From the Collection: Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
From the Collection: Weitling, Wilhelm, 1808-1871 - Published / Created
- 1851–1869
- Description
- Leaves 19–57 Contains notes from Macdonald's three visits (October 1851, July 1852, 1853), with newspaper clippings; the verso of leaf 49 is inscribed: "My visits to the N.A.P / 28 pages / complete March 1854." Also present are three illustrations of the Phalanx buildings: one wood engraving cut from Barnum's Illustrated News (April 1853) and two graphite drawings, one signed "AJMC Oct 12 1851 N.A.P." along with a short list of citations for articles on the community. Some of the information was provided by Charles Sears. The newspaper clippings are mounted on colored proof sheets from Fletcher's Devotional Family Bible (New York: George Virtue), and two works published in New York by John Tallis and Co., Tallis's Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, and The American in Europe by Henry Clay Crockett.
- Provenance
- Gift of John Humphrey Noyes, 1870., The material was organized into its present arrangement by John Humphrey Noyes and his son Victor Cragin Noyes in the 1860s. John Humphrey Noyes, a founder of the Oneida Community, acquired the manuscripts in the mid-1860s from one of Macdonald’s relatives, and wrote about the collection in a column titled “Our Muck-Heap,” published in the Oneida Community’s weekly paper The Circular (vol. 5, no. 30, October 12, 1868, page 236): “When it came into our hands it was in the loosest state of disorder; but we have strung the leaves together, paged them, and made an index of their contents.” The leaves were numbered in pencil straight through the collection, whether the contents were manuscript, printed, or graphic material. The binding strips affixed by Victor Noyes are still attached to Macdonald’s papers from leaf 229 to the end, and the album’s front and back covers are in Box 3, folders 90-91. The index prepared by Victor Cragin Noyes and copied over by George Washington Noyes is in Box 3, folder 89. A "Catalogue of the McDonald Materials," a precis of Macdonald's writings prepared by Victor Noyes, is in the Oneida Community Collection at the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, Syracuse, New York. John Humphrey Noyes provided an overall description of Macdonald's papers in a second column, “Our Muck-Heap, No. II” (vol. 5, no. 31, October 19, 1868, page 244), and wrote articles on each community in forty subsequent columns appearing in The Circular through July 19, 1869 (vol. 6, no. 18); the second half of his columns were titled “American Socialisms.” In a column published on February 7, 1870 (vol. 6, no. 47, page 372), Noyes addressed the critics of his book and mentioned that anyone may “consult the original manuscripts in the library of Yale College.”
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- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Item Location
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- GEN MSS 1394
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- Container / Volume
- Box 1, folder 4–5
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- Citation
- A. J. Macdonald Writings on American Utopian Communities. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 3660074
- Object ID (OID)
- 17479169