| | 161 | 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 |
| 162 | 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 |
| 164 | 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 |
| 166 | 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 |
| 167 | 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 |
| 170 | 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 |
| 172 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas White, 1835 July 20 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I duly
recd:
both your letters (July 14
th & 16th) together with
the $20 dollars. I am indeed grieved to hear that your health has not
been
improved by your trip I agree with you in thinking that too close
attention to business has been instrumental in causing your
sickness: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 173 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Autobiographical Fragment | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Memo. Born January
1811. Family one of the
oldest and most respectable in Baltimore.
Genr
David Poe, my
paternal grandfather, was a quarter-master general, in the
Maryland
line, during the Revolution, and the inti-
mate friend of Lafayette,
who, during his visit to the
U.S., called
personally upon the Gen's widow and
tendered her his warmest acknowledgements for the services
rendered him by her husband. His father, John
Poe married, in England,
Jane
a daughter of Admiral James
McBride, noted in
British naval history, and claim-
ing kindred with many of the most illustrious houses
of Great Britain.
My father and mother died within
a few years of each other, of consumption, leaving me an orphan at 2
years of age. Mr. John Allan, a
very wealthy gentleman of
Richmond Va,
took a fancy to me, and persuaded
my grandfather, Gen.
Poe, to
suffer him to adopt me. Was brought up in
Mr. A's family, and
regarded always as his son and heir—
he having no other children.
In 1816 went with Mr.
A's family to G.
Britain—visited every portion of it—
went to school for 5 years to the
Rev. Doctor
Bransby, at Stoke
Newington, then 4 miles from
London.
Returned to America in 1822. In 1825 went to the Jefferson University at
Charlottesville,
Va, where in 3
years I led a very dissipated life— the college at
that period being shamefully dissolute—
Dr Dunglison
of Philadelphia, President.
Took the first honors, however, and
came home greatly in debt. Mr. A refused
to pay some of the debts of honor and I ran
away from home
without a dollar on a Quixotic expedition to
join the
Greeks, then struggling for liberty. Failed in reaching Greece, but
made my way to St
Petersburg, in
Russia. Got into many difficulties, but was extricated
by the kindness of Mr. H. Middleton, the Am-
erican consul at
St. P. Came
home safe in 1829, found Mrs. A. dead, and immediately went to
West Point
as a Cadet. In about 18 months afterwards
Mr. A. married a second time
(a Miss Patterson,
a near rela-
tive of Gen.
Winfield Scott)—he being then 65 years of age.
Mrs. A
and myself quarrelled, and he, siding
with her, wrote me an angry letter, to which I replied in the same
spirit. Soon afterwards he died, having
had a son by Mrs.
A.
and, although leaving a vast property, bequeathed
me nothing. The army does
not suit a poor man—so I left
W. Point
abruptly, and threw myself upon
literature as a resource.
I became first known to the literary world thus. A
Baltimore weekly paper
(The Visiter) offered two premiums—
one for best prose story, one for the best poem. The Committee awarded
both to me and took occasion
to insert in the journal a card, signed by themselves, in which I was
very highly flattered. The
Committee were John P. Kennedy
(author of Horse-Shoe Robinson),
J. H. B. Latrobe, and
Dr. J. H. Miller.
Soon after this I was invited by
Mr. T. W. White proprietor of the
South. Lit. Messenger, to edit
it.
Afterwards wrote for New York Review at the invitation of
Dr Hawks
and Professor Henry, its proprietors.
Lately have written articles continuously
for two British journals whose names I am not permitted to mention.
In my engagement with Burton, it was not my
design to let my name appear— but he tricked
me into it.2 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 174 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection:
Frances Sargent Osgood / Edgar Allan Poe | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Mrs Osgood,
for the last three or four years, has been rapidly attain-
ing distinction; and this, evidently, with no effort at attaining it. She seems,
in fact, to have no object in view beyond that of giving voice to the fancies
or the feelings of the moment. "Necessity", says the proverb, "is the mother of
Invention"; and the invention of
Mrs O.
,
at least, springs plainly from ne-
cessity — from the necessity of invention.
Not to write poetry — not to act it,
think it, dream it, and be it, is entirely out of her power. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 177 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Leaf from "Siope" by Edgar Allan Poe | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | forest, and up higher at the rustling Heaven, and into the crimson
moon.
And I lay close within shelter of the lilies, and I observed the
actions of
the man. And the man trembled in the solitude — but the night wa—
-ned and he sat upon the rock. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 180 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick William Thomas, 1841, September 1 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Griswold left a note for me at the office, the
other day, requesting me to furnish him with some memoranda
of your life; and it will, of course, give me great pleasure to
do so; but, upon sitting down to the task, I find that neither
myself, nor Mrs Clemm, upon whom I mainly depend for infor.
mation, can give all the necessary points with sufficient pre-
cision for G's purpose. Just send me a line, therefore, answering
the following queries, and I will put your responses into
shape. Most of the points we know, but not with full certainty.
What is your father's Christian name? Had your parents more
children than yourself, Lewis, Frances, Susan, Martha, Isabella &
Jackson? -if so, what were their names? When & where were
you born? With whom did you study law? What was (exactly) the
cause of your lameness? How did you first become known to the
literary world? Who were your most intimate associates in
Baltimore? When did you remove to Cincinnati? With what
papers have you been occasionally connected -if with any? Be-
sides answering these queries -give me a list of your writings
published & unpublished -and some memoranda respecting your
late lectures at Washington. Reply as soon as possible, as
the volume is in press. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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