This letter to his mother Jane from the linen merchant John McCaldin Loewenthal was sent from Curaçao. It covers the period 24th to 28th January 1890. A transcription is available at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/chapter/curacao-january1890/

This letter to his mother Jane from the linen merchant John McCaldin Loewenthal was sent from Trinidad. It covers the period 7th-14th January 1890. A transcription is available at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/chapter/trinidad_january1890/

This letter to his mother Jane from the linen merchant John McCaldin Loewenthal was sent from the Georgetown, Demerara. It covers the period 27th December 1889 to 3rd January 1890. A transcription is available at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/chapter/georgetown_december1889/

This letter to his mother Jane from the linen merchant John McCaldin Loewenthal was sent from Barbados and covers the period 14th-22nd December 1889. A transcription is available at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/chapter/barbados_december1899/

This letter to his mother Jane from the linen merchant John McCaldin Loewenthal was sent from the SS Medway sailing from Plymouth to Barbados. It covers the period 1st-10th December 1889. A transcription is available at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/chapter/medway_december1889/

This is a collection of travel letters written by the textile merchant John (Jack) McCaldin Loewenthal, known as JMcC, to his mother Jane at their home in Lennoxvale, Belfast, between 1889 and 1895. They were written during his journeys to South America and the West Indies, where he was securing commercial contracts while representing the firm in…[Read more]

This letter to Jane McCully contains a poem sent by the linen merchant Julius Loewenthal to his bride to be and is marked with the date 10th November 1854. A transcription is available at https://loewenthal.pressbooks.com/front-matter/epigraph/

Traditional college textbooks reprint literary works removed from the print cultures in which they appeared. But this class featured works of nineteenth-century American literature as they were originally published through a variety of databases such as the American Periodicals Series (APS; accessed through UCCS’s Kraemer Family Library) as well a…[Read more]

EN 124, College Research, is the second of a two-semester course designed to refine reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills, and to introduce students to the principles and methods of college-level academic writing and research. Writing assignments will be based on a combination of personal experience, analysis, and research.…[Read more]