Josiah W. Leeds scrapbooks, 1886-1888

123 p., crumbling edges of pages, many page numbers missing. Correspondence, newspaper and periodical clippings of articles written by Leeds as well as of interest to him on such topics as: temperance, charity balls, "pernicious literature," "pernicious prints," legislation related to "vice," tobacco, ballet, theater, volumeing, capital punishment, secret societies, military exercises at West Point, plain attire, New Year's Eve celebrations. Also various tracts by Leeds ("Social purity Series, no. 4, Simplicity of attire an essential to social purity," "Fruit eating," "Some quiet ways of dealing with pernicious prints," "Sunday papers again," "Taking risks," "Juvenile periodical literature").