| | 21 | Author: | Cooper, James Fenimore | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Preface to the Water Witch [a machine-readable transcription]  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | It was a bold attempt to lay the scene of a work like this, on the coast of America. We have had
our Buccaneer on the water, and our witches on the land, but we believe this is the first time
occasion on which the rule has been reversed. After an experience that has now lasted more than twenty
years, the result has shown that the public prefers the original order of things. In other words, the book
has proved a comparative failure. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 25 | Author: | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Pay of Colored Troops | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | The following is the petition in respect to the arrears of pay
due a portion of the colored troops, to which reference was lately
made under our telegraphic head. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 30 | Author: | Knowes, Edward C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Mrs. Fannie Grimes, March 2, 1871 [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | The sisters of one Henry. R. Brooks, deceased Pvt of Company
"G"
23d
U.S. Colored Troops having made a Claim
against the U.S. Government for the Bounty &c
due the above named soldier, it is necessary
for the claimants to furnish evidence of two persons
who write showing that the said soldier left
surviving him no widow, child, or children,
father, mother, brother, or sister other than the
applicants,=Julia Washington, Luberta and
Jane Brooks,=and that said named sisters
and the deceased soldier were children of the
same mother | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 31 | Author: | Mann, W. A. and Lusk, John A. M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Public hiring of free negroes | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | WILL be hired at public auction in front of the
Court
House, on the first day of March Court next, the following
FREE NEGROES to pay their taxes, for the amount an-
nexed to their names: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 33 | Author: | Mead, William R. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter from William R. Mead to Dr. Barringer, Nov. 5, 1895; [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | Your letter of the
29th was received at the
office while I was on the
ocean returning from Europe,
which will account for my
not answering it immediately.
I presume matters have taken
such shape in the meantime
that I can only say how
much we all regret the
calamity which has befallen
the University in the loss of
a building that was one
of the architectural monuments
of the country—and our hope
that its reconstruction has
fallen into reverent hands-
It would indeed be a
misfortune if some one tries
to be original and improve
on what has gone before—ex
cept perhaps as to interior
arrangement— If no final
arrangements have been made
we can only say we should
consider it an honor to be
associated with the work
and apart from our actual
expense should not consider
the money side of the matter.
These expenses from our past
experience would amount
to about 3 per cent on the
expenditure. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 35 | Author: | New, Anthony | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Printed Letter, 1794 [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | THE resolutions proposed by Mr. Madison,
upon the principle of securing the
advantages to the navigation and commerce of the United States,
which of right
belong to her, and which have been hitherto usurped by
Britain, have been postponed
to the first Monday in March, by which time, the public will
may be tolerably ascer-
tained, and foreign occurrences better known: A state
like ours, whose prosperity
depends upon the regular exportation of bulky commodities, to
distant countries, must
be deeply interested to secure the national means of
doing it, independent of foreign
revolutions and wars. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 36 | Author: | Pleasants, James | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter from James Pleasants to Frank Smith, Oct. 28, 1895 [a machine-readable
transcription] | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Description: | Yesterday was truly a
day of days; of sympathi-
zing sorrow & overwhelming
sadness with us all. Besides
the terrific blow that fell on
dear Robert Stiles in the
death of his daughter Lelia,
who died in the morning at
8 o'clock, there next came
upon us the crushing news that
the dear old University was
in flames and doubtless
doomed to destruction! I
need not attempt to describe
our misery and anxiety.
All day long was spent in
eagerness, & melancholy, about
the University's fate. I hardly
have ever known more excite-
ment in our Community, and
as the day wore on & the news
became sadder & sadder, we
felt as if the loss of the
beloved old Rotunda and
Public Hall, with its priceless
contents, would be felt as the
most irreparable of disasters,
and saddest of blows. I
thought of you very often
& those invaluable treasures;
and especially of your lecture-
room & its apparatus. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 39 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection:
Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Hiram Haines, Esqr., 1844 August | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Herewith I send you the August number
of the "Messenger" —
the best number, by far, yet issued.1
Can you oblige me so far as to look it over and
give your unbiassed opinion of its merits and
demerits in the "Constellation"? We need the
assistance of all our friends and count upon yourself
among the foremost. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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