 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1881 - 52 pages
...volumes. Through the generosity of one of Savannah's distiguished sons,—DR. JAMES P. SCKEVEN,—-a liability incurred in the erection of our hall was,...vitality. Then came the exciting days of the Confederate Bevolution when the entire manhood of our beleaguered land was in arms in defense of home and country... | |
 | 1888 - 1124 pages
...addition of some twenty-five hundred volumes.1 Through the generosity of one of Savannah's distinguished sons, Dr. James P. Screven, a liability incurred in the erection of its hall was, in 1S52, discharged, and the society liberated from debt. During the next few years little... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1889 - 354 pages
...addition of some twenty-five hundred volumes.i Through the generosity of one of Savannah's distinguished sons, Dr. James P. Screven, a liability incurred in the erection of its hall was, in 1852, discharged, and the society liberated from debt. During the next few years little... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1888 - 556 pages
...addition of some twenty-five hundred volumes.1 Through the generosity of one of Savannah's distinguished sons, Dr. James P. Screven, a liability incurred in the erection of its hall was, in 1852, discharged, and the society liberated from debt. During the next few years little... | |
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... of the State of Georgia. The library of the Savannah Library Society was merged into that of the Georgia Historical Society, and thus were the literary attractions of the latter enhanced by the addition of some twenty-five hundred volumes.1 Through... 