Slavery; Slaves; Christmas; Plantation life; Clothing and dress; Marriage;
Roxana writes about her first Christmas on the Mississippi plantation; the celebrations of the plantation slaves; the making of clothes for slaves [in 1860 the census listed 73 slaves for the Gerdine plantation]; sending her congratulations on...
Roxana writes of her children and cooking for such a large family; Thanksgiving celebrations; alludes to the death of their brother Titus Chapin, Jr. who at 26 drowned in the Kansas River; speaks of the arrival of their sister Lucy Chapin; talks...
Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862; Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, 1799-1867;
Roxana writes of Mt. Holyoke; hearing from mutual acquaintances in Washington, [GA]; her wish that her sisters (Lucy and Emily) could be with her down South; stories about her step-children; T.R.R. Cobb's opinion of her; and the opinion of Judge...
Accountants -- Professional ethics -- Standards -- United States
For the purpose of this book I shall assume, what I believe to be the case, that there can be no doubt at all of the professional standing of accountancy. In the treatment of the questions which will be considered it seems best to take the various...
The editors of the Journal have chosen in this issue to reprint the comments of two distinguished speakers, Thomas Cullen Roberts and James G. Cannon, on the occasion of the annual meeting of The American Association of Public Accountants at the...