Start out your weekend, by listening to the latest – and extended – chapter of our oral reading of the Bride of the Tomb. Continue on with a host of newly added letters and documents in the Father Middleton Collection. Bonus points for the hardy readers who explore several of our newly added Beadles dime novels and in this summer heat lean to make ice cream in How to make candy! Thrill to newly added rare Civil-War-era newspaper issues and read the dramatic coverage of the Assassination of President Lincoln and his funeral.

Catholica

American Catholic Historical Society

Father Thomas C. Middleton Papers (60 letters added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:292050]

Dime Novel and Popular Literature

Fiction

Beadle’s Half-Dime Library (2 issues added, series created)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:293827]

Beadle’s New York Dime Library (3 issues added, series created)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:293829]

Beadle’s Boy’s Library of Sport, Story and Adventure (1 issues added, series created)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:293828]

Brave and Bold (2 issues added):

Tom Pinkney’s Fortunes; or, Around the World with Nellie Bly.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:293301]

In the Wonderful Land of Hez; or, the Mystery of the Fountain of Youth.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:293263]

Pluck and Luck (1 issue added):

Under the Turban, or, a Yankee Boy’s Trip to Mecca.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:293789]

Non-Fiction

“When were you born” series (2 issues added, series created)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:293428]

John Regan Five Cent Pamphlets (5 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:292799]

Ten Cent Handbooks (2 issues added):

How to make candy : a complete hand book for making all kinds of candy, ice cream syrups, essences…
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:293429]

How to collect stamps and coins.
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:293499]

Periodicals

New York Tablet : a Family Journal (6 issues added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:293787]

Scholarship

Edward T. LeBlanc, August 1982 (6 cassettes added)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Collection/vudl:283767]

Spare Change Library Podcast

Mittie’s Storytime (1 episode)
[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:286583]