Partridge Alden (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 4pp. Caption title. Disbound. Light foxing. Very good. Concerning a request by Alden Partridge for the provision of ammunition to the students of the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, Norwich, Vermont, for improvements in gunnery. Includes correspondence by John C. Calhoun and George Bomford, with a list of munitions and average weekly cost of firing practice (about $450). Considered the "Birthplace of ROTC" (Reserve Officers' Training Corps), today, Norwich University ? The Military College of Vermont is the oldest private military college in the United States, founded in 1819.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Art of Epistolary Composition, or Models of Letters, Billets, Bills of Exchange, Bills of Lading, Invoices, &c. With Preliminary Instructions and Notes. To Which are Added, A Collection of Fables Intended as Exercises for Pupils Learning the French Language; a Series of Letters Between a Cadet and his Father, Describing the System Pursued at the American, Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, at Middletown, Conn. with some Account of that Place; and a Discourse on Education, by Capt. Alden Partridge, Superintendent of the Academy, by Francois Peyre-Ferry, Printed and Published by E. & H. Clark, Middletown, Conn., 1826, portrait plate of Partridge and The Military Academy in Middletown, CT (later Wesleyan University), 288 pp, full tree calf leather, 7.5 x 4.5", 12mo. In good condition. Ring mark (from a cup or burn) on proper right corner of front board. Some staining and discoloration, scuffing to surface of boards. Finely bound in tree calf with bright red spine label indicative of the era. Wear to boards with scuffing to corners and end bands. Joints desiccated. Old hand ownership to front pastedown and end papers. Plate of Military Academy is torn at top right corner. Foxing and offsetting to plates. Old hand ownership on rear of second plate. Heavier foxing to title. Small dots of ink staining to table of contents. Light foxing throughout, typical toning. Free of marginalia. Binding remains tight and intact. A sound book. Please see photos. Alden Partridge (1785-1854) was an American author, legislator, officer, surveyor, and early superintendent of the United States Military Academy of West Point, New York, and a controversial pioneer in U.S. Military education, emphasizing physical fitness training, and establishing a series of private military academies including Norwich University. It was said that "the halls and stairs were knee deep in dirt and the boys, instead of being at their studies, were romping and squealing all through the rooms, up and down the stairs, nothing but loud talking and hoarse laughs." Partridge was described as "one of the most common clowns that ever undertook to keep a school." The Military Academy assumed new ownership by the City of Middletown after Partidge moved to Norwich, VT, and sold them to Wesleyan College, which was founded in 1831 by the Methodist Church. This work describes the best and most proper and most efficient methods of letter writing to superiors and loved ones. Quite scarce.

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