Papers on human culture
Contributors: Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894; Lane, Charles, 1800-1870; Marston, Westland, 1819-1890; Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917, former owner
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1885
Place of publication: [S.l
Language: eng
Subjects: Education; Social change
Other titles: Human culture
Notes: A volume composed of portions of books excised and bound together by A. Bronson Alcott and presented to F.B. Sanborn in 1885.

"F.B. Sanborn from A. Bronson Alcott 1885" (ms.)--Preliminary page.

"No other copy of this single volume exists. F.B.S." (ms.)--Preliminary page.

Title page, table of contents, title pages of content works in Alcott's hand.

Bound volume contains: 1. The general principles of education (Elizabeth P. Peabody, from her Record of a school, 1835) (lacking) -- 2. The doctrine and discipline of human culture (A. Bronson Alcott, from Conversations with children on the gospels, volume 1, 1836) -- 3. The law and method of spirit-culture (Charles Lane, 1843) -- 4. Expediency and means of elevating the profession of educator in the public estimation (John A. Heraud, 1839) -- 5. Poetry as an universal nature (J. Westland Marston, 1838) -- 6. Poetic culture, an appeal to those interested in human destiny (J. Westland Marston, 1838) -- 7. The third dispensation (Charles Lane, 1841).

Label on front paste-down: Exchange from C. F. Libbie Co.