COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Volume 048 -jo

[Sue Anderson]

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 048

This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page here:

https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-048-by-various/

This collection is dedicated to recordings of short nonfiction works in English which are in the Public Domain (generally meaning that they were published prior to 1923). Nonfiction includes essays and speeches; letters and diaries; biography and history; film, book and music reviews; descriptions of travel, politics and sports; instructional manuals, even a favorite cookie recipe from a public domain cookbook! Your nonfiction recording can be on any topic. Some suggestions for source material can be found here.

Please select and record any short nonfiction piece in the public domain. For clarification of what it means for a work to be "in the public domain," please see this section of the LibriVox Wiki: http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Copyright_and_Public_Domain. Try to stick to works that run less than 60 minutes. You are welcome to contribute as many as you wish, and there is no need to "sign-up" before recording. As long as the work is clearly in the public domain, just start recording. Multiple versions are always welcome, so don't worry whether someone else has recorded your selection already; we're happy to hear your version too.

After 15-20 recordings are submitted, we will prooflisten, catalog and make them available to the public.

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[Sue Anderson]

Welcome to the 48th volume of the Short Nonfiction Collection. This is a place to share a special interest by recording a short work of public domain nonfiction. If you haven't something already in mind that you'd like to record, there are many bookshelves at Gutenberg.org filled with public domain nonfiction to explore http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf. The bookshelves for Countries, Education, Fine Arts, History, Music, Periodicals, and Technology are some places to start.

The Nonfiction Collection also has a Wiki page with recording suggestions you might enjoy: http://wiki.librivox.org/index.

[Sue Anderson]

Our dedicated proof listener, Craig, has some great suggestions for nonfiction sources!

Hello Everybody,

My name is Craig and I'm Proof Listener and sometimes reader here on the Short Non-Fiction collection. These are some of the websites I use.

Gutenberg book categories
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf

Archive.org they have a huge list of books.
https://archive.org/

Online books page, subject directory
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html

Hathi Trust has many books available also
https://www.hathitrust.org/

Literature online is another source
http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php

And Bartleby has a nonfiction shelf
http://www.bartleby.com/nonfiction/

Hope this gives you some leads

Craig

[msfry]

Here is my contribution:

Benjamin Franklin's thoughts on immigration, set forth in a letter to Peter Collinson in May, 1793.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf048_lettertoPeterCollinson1753_franklin_mtf_128kb.mp3
17:23

Source: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%20letter%20to%20peter%20collinson&s=1111311113&r=62

[Sue Anderson]

Here is my contribution:

Benjamin Franklin's thoughts on immigration, set forth in a letter to Peter Collinson in May, 1793.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf048_lettertoPeterCollinson1753_franklin_mtf_128kb.mp3
17:23

Source: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%20letter%20to%20peter%20collinson&s=1111311113&r=62

Thanks Michele for getting Vol. 48 off to such a great start with this interesting take on the immigration question from a historical perspective, which in Franklin's time concerned German immigration. To quote Franklin: "I am not against the Admission of Germans in general, for they have their virtues, their industry and frugality is exemplary; They are excellent husbandmen and contribute greatly to the improvement of a Country. ... All that seems to be necessary is, to distribute them more equally, mix them with the English, establish English Schools where they are now too thick settled . . ."

But, by far and away, my favorite passage from Franklin's letter is this one:

"Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the World, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than Good. In New England they once thought Black-birds useless and mischievous to their corn, they made [Laws] to destroy them, the consequence was, the Black-birds were diminished but a kind of Worms which devoured their Grass, and which the Black-birds had been used to feed on encreased prodigiously; Then finding their Loss in Grass much greater than their saving in corn they wished again for their Black-birds."

[msfry]

You are very welcome, Sue. There is a treasure trove of great stuff to read at www.founders.archive.gov for anyone looking to call attention to letters and articles of America's Founding Fathers. Many of their thoughts focused on universal topics, just as appropriate today as they were then.

[soupy]

Thanks Michele I think the title should have 1753 instead of 1793.

16:00 Milton quote – you didn’t say it was from Paradise lost

Craig

[msfry]

Thanks Michele I think the title should have 1753 instead of 1793.

16:00 Milton quote – you didn’t say it was from Paradise lost

Craig

Okay I added the footnote at 16:05
And the title should read:
Ben Franklin on Welfare and Immigration, set forth in a letter to Peter Collinson on May 9, 1753
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf048_lettertoPeterCollinson1753_franklin_mtf_128kb.mp3

[soupy]

Your reading is PLOK Michele - changed the title but Sue might shorten it.

Craig

[msfry]

Your reading is PLOK Michele - changed the title but Sue might shorten it.

Craig

If need be, I would shorten it to: Ben Franklin on Welfare and Immigration - 1753

[soupy]

Here is one from me
Aphorisms by Diderot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Thoughts

Diderot's early philosophical works translated and edited by Margaret Jourdain 1876-1951 by Denis Diderot 1713-1784
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Jourdain
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Jourdain%2C%20Margaret

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf048_aphorisms_diderot_cc_128kb.mp3

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015054424455;view=1up;seq=48

15:49

Craig

[Sue Anderson]

Here is one from me
Aphorisms by Diderot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Thoughts

Diderot's early philosophical works translated and edited by Margaret Jourdain 1876-1951 by Denis Diderot 1713-1784
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Jourdain
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Jourdain%2C%20Margaret

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf048_aphorisms_diderot_cc_128kb.mp3

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015054424455;view=1up;seq=48

15:49

Craig

Hi Craig, all is ok here except for one minor slip. At 6:27 you say "aphorism 22" and it is actually number 20 (XX).
What do you think about adding the aphorism numbers to the title, i.e. Aphorisms XV-XXII, 1763? Just a thought.

Your U-Tube channel is impressive!

[soupy]

Hi Craig, all is ok here except for one minor slip. At 6:27 you say "aphorism 22" and it is actually number 20 (XX).
What do you think about adding the aphorism numbers to the title, i.e. Aphorisms XV-XXII, 1763? Just a thought.

Your U-Tube channel is impressive!

Thanks Sue

Here is the new upload
Aphorisms 15-22 1746

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf048_aphorisms_diderot_cc_128kb.mp3

16:00

Craig

[Sue Anderson]

That was quick! PL OK.

[MrsHand]

Here's my contribution:

Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat by Mark Twain from Harper's Magazine, Volume 34, December 1866. (Was noted as Mark Swain in the byline, interestingly enough).

A story about men whose ship sinks due to an explosion on board and how they make it into one of the long boats and eventually wind up in Hawaii instead of their anticipated destination of San Francisco. I did some googling and confirmed that it is in fact a true story, and one of Twain's first ever published works.

The link takes you directly to the page the story starts on.
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=CPsvAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA104

duration: 54:45

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf048_fortythreedays_twain_kjh_128kb.mp3