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61Author:  Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Artistic Side of Chicago  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: ONE who enters Chicago unacquainted with it, having no open sesame to its hospitable doors, knowing the city only by its streets, its hotels, and its theatres, is disturbed by an unpleasant emotion. If he comes from some well-regulated, cultivated, and placid town of the eastern part of this country, or from England or Germany, he feels shaken out of poise and peace by a tremendous discord. He sees a city ankle-deep in dirt, swathed in smoke, wild with noise, and frantic with the stress of life. He sees confusion rampant, and the fret and fume of the town rise and brood above it like hideous Afrits.
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62Author:  Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Door  
 Published:  1999 
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63Author:  Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935Requires cookie*
 Title:  Lanier in the Valley  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: [Sidney Lanier died at Lynn in the Valley of the Pacolet, N. C.]
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64Author:  Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935Requires cookie*
 Title:  Shehens` Houn` Dogs  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: EDWARD Berenson, the Washington correspondent for the New York News, descended from the sleeping-car at Hardin, Kentucky, and inquired for the stage to Ballington's Gap. But there was, it appeared, no stage. Neither was a conveyance to be hired. The community looked at Berenson and went by on the other side. He had, indeed, as he recollected, with a too confiding candor, registered himself from Washington, and there were reasons in plenty why strangers should not be taken over to Ballington's Gap promiscuously, so to speak, by the neighbors at Hardin. Berenson had come down from Washington with a purpose, however, and he was not to be frustrated. He wished to inquire — politely — why, for four generations, the Shehens and the Babbs had been killing each other. He meant to put the question calmly and in the interest of scientific journalism, but he was quite determined to have it answered. To this end he bought a lank mare for seventy-five dollars — "an th' fixin's thrown in, sah" — and set out upon a red road, bound for the Arcadian distance.
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65Author:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892Requires cookie*
 Title:  Leaves of Grass [1856]  
 Published:  1999 
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66Author:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892Requires cookie*
 Title:  Memoranda During the War  
 Published:  1999 
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67Author:  Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes / by Joseph Conrad  
 Published:  1999 
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68Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Episodes in Van Bibber`s life.  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: HER FIRST APPEARANCE
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69Author:  Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886Requires cookie*
 Title:  "Morning"  
 Published:  1999 
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70Author:  Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan, 1870-1942Requires cookie*
 Title:  Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Caldwell Hegan.  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: MY, but it 's nice an' cold this mornin'! The thermometer 's done fell up to zero!"
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71Author:  Jewett, Sarah OrneRequires cookie*
 Title:  "Discontent"  
 Published:  1999 
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72Author:  Jewett, Sarah OrneRequires cookie*
 Title:  "Only A Doll"  
 Published:  1999 
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73Author:  Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818Requires cookie*
 Title:  Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: 1815. NOVEMBER 8. (Wednesday.)
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74Author:  Moore, ClementRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Night Before Christmas / by Clement Moore  
 Published:  1999 
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75Author:  Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935Requires cookie*
 Title:  Grizel Cochrane's Ride  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: IN the midsummer of 1685, the hearts of the people of old Edinburgh were filled with trouble and excitement. King Charles the Second, of England, was dead, and his brother, the Duke of York, reigned in his stead to the dissatisfaction of a great number of the people.
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76Author:  Pyle, HowardRequires cookie*
 Title:  Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: JUST above the northwestern shore of the old island of Hispaniola—the Santo Domingo of our day—and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle. It is not more than twenty miles in length by perhaps seven or eight in breadth; it is only a little spot of land, and as you look at it upon the map a pin's head would almost cover it; yet from that spot, as from a center of inflammation, a burning fire of human wickedness and ruthlessness and lust overran the world, and spread terror and death throughout the Spanish West Indies, from St. Augustine to the island of Trinidad, and from Panama to the coasts of Peru.
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77Author:  Ceasar, SamsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1834 June 2  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I embrace this oppertunity to inform you that I am well hoping that these few lines will find you in and all yours in good helth it affords me adegree of Comfort that I have the oppertunity of conversing with you by way of paper and ink I have been in Africa almost Six months and I have not kept my bed one day at A time I had but A Slight tuch of the fever I have Chills now and then and also the fever with them the fever is not as hard in this Country as it is in the United States if you get it around here it is very hard to heal but I thank god that I have had none yet it is almost nedless for me to undertake to dis crib Africa to you I have Seen but little of it but this I can Say the more I See and the longer I Stay the better I like it I am convinced in my owun own mind that all that is wanting is industry and good management and then we Shall be independant and can enjoy the comforts of life I visited A Town by the name of New Gorgia it is Settled by the recaptured Africans by the name of Ebose and Congose they had not been in the United States long enough to learn to talk English if you Could See their town and their farms around it you would Say that any person that could not live in A A Africa ort to Starve I Seen three Crops all at one time on one peace of ground their was corn rice and Cosider and they all look as promising as I would wish to See them Swete potatos look as fine as any I ever Saw I must Say that I am afraid that our Country never will improve as it ort untill the people in the United States keep their Slaves that they have raised like as dum as horses at home and Send those here who will be A help to improve the Country as for Virginia as far as my knowledg extends I think She has Sent out the most Stupid Set of people in the place while they have them their the cow hide is hardly ever off of their backs and when they come here they feal So free that they walk about from morning till evening with out doing one Stroke of work by those means they become to Sufer people in the United States ort to have more regard for Liberia than to Send Such people here Some think that every thing grows by in this Country with out labour but they are mistaken I must Correct an error that I made in William Jackson's letter I Stated that every thing grew almost Spontanious in this Country I wish to be un derstood by that expresion that we need not labour half So hard here as in Some parts of the United States yet we can not live with out work their have com agrate many from North Carlina who are dregs in the place the most enterprising men that we have here is from Baltimore and Charleton I can only Say that if the Coulard man had the Same oppertunity with the White man he would not be one Step behind him in no respect the their is not much Sickness in Liberia at this time god Still preserves our lives time would fail m with me to tell all that I have Seen and heard Since I left Buchannon I often think about you the thousands of miles apart we have had Seet intercourse together on Buchannon and I feal in hopes if god Spares us we will See each other in the flesh I am now living in Call well imploid to assist in giving out provis ion and Selling goods in the mean time I am studing grammer and the arithmetic I want to get all the Learning that I can for with out it we can do but little both in temperl and Spirituel matters your assistance to me will never be forgotten by me while I move on the globe as it respects my religious enjoy ments I think I enjoy my Self as well as I ever have Since god Spoke peace to my Soul the more I See of the world the more I feal like Serving god as I n no that I have but afew days to live in the world I want to do all I can in god's service I feal that when god calls me from this world that it Shall be from the walls of Zion I have been trying to Blow the gospel trump ever since I landed in Africa I Still feal that god is with me god is reviveing his work in Caldwell I feal as if the time was not far distant till the Clangours of truth will be Sounded to the last green verg on erth when I look back to America and See how the people in Buchannon Stood in my way in trying to Serve god I fear that if they do not repent they will be Sorry in the morning of the resurrection I can appeal to god and Say I love all my old neighbours I want you to give my best love to your wife and tell her that I am Still trying to [illeg.] tell her not to forget me at athrone of grace Give my love to all the family tell your boys to improve their time in learning while young and when they grow up they will be glad that they Spent their time in gaining knowledg tell Betty likewise to get learning tell Lydia that I expect She has all the learning She can get unless She goes to Germany if She is not mared yet [illeg.] tell her to write to me and I will try and bring A German with me when I come to the United States I want you to give my love to your father and all his family both at [illeg.] and abroad I have not time to mention [illeg.] [illeg.] names tell them all that I am better contented than I ever was Since I blivd that god called me to preach his gosple their is a large field opend for me and I intend to labour for god untill he Calls me from the world and then I hope to go whare the wicked Seas from trubling and the wared Soul be for ever at rest O Henry never sufer the vain and sorded things of this world to deprive you of the immortle crown [illeg.] that awaits the faithful at god's right hand Give my love to Mr Haselden tell him that the world has not got my hart yet I and I hope by the help of god that it never will get the advantage of me for their is nothing in it worthy of our affection give my love to all my old neighbours and to all inquireng friends I want you to write as often as possible and let me no what is going on in your Settlement how many have died and who they ware also how things are generaly both in State and in Church in Short write all that you think will be profitable to me this is the fourth letter I have written [illeg.] to you Since I landed in Africa I will write as often as I can please to excuse bad writing and Spelling for I am Surrounded with company I want you to tell the people to direct their letters to Mr Robert R Gurley in Wash ington for him to send to me and I think that I will get them by so doing you will oblige your friend.
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78Author:  Ceasar, SamsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1835 August 3  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I feel happy to have the oppertunity of writing you in order to let you know that I am well at this time hoping that these lines will find you all well. I am sorry to have to inform you that we have been attacted by the natives at the place called Bassaw Cove about one hundred miles from here they k killed about 15 or 20 Americans our people attacted them twice and the first time we lost one man they sent up for more men they went down and made the second attact and drove the natives all out of Town it is not known how many natives got killed but it is Sertain Several was killed I Can not Give you full Satisfaction in this letter I will send you one Herld and if I can I will send you a paper witch will be printed to morrow or next day & witch will Give you a full Statement of all the ware. I Can only say that we are in no danger of the natives if we manage Right as for my own part I feal no fear at all of the natives I receive a letter from Eade in July and was Glad to here that you ware all well tell Eade I have not time to write to her now but will write the first vessel that Sails from here to America After this one Give my love to all your famely and to all my old neighbours tell Mother I am well Give my love to all the famely tell Daniel I have never received a line from him Since I left home I am in a hurry the vessel is expected to Sail in a few days. God is with us of a truth. I still feal Intent on Serving God untill I die write as often as possible I remain your friend
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79Author:  Douglass, William; Walker, William; Carr, SamuelRequires cookie*
 Title:  Liberian Letters: William Douglass, Hugh Walker, and Samuel Carr to Dr. James H. Minor 1857 February 6  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: i have taken this oppertunity of wrighting thes feue lines to in form your how we ar geting along in our new home we was forty one Days from Hamto n Rhoades to Cape Mont and we need to illeg. that noe lives has not Bin lost in way coming we ar at this tim settle on the St Paul River fifteen miles from Monrovia and the Children and some of our old Peopoel is about to take the Affrican feaver But not as yet Searous and as Artickels is high her we send for some things Robbenson Scoot send fore a whiyp saw and 4 Barrels of flower and a coupp le Barrels of Pork and a Box of Shoes of Diffrent sizes from twelve to 8 of men shoes and from 8 to 5 of woman shoes forty yards of calicoe and forty yards of lawn of Diffrent Kindes and Dozon pair of thin stockigs and forty yards of Bleach and unbleach cotton and dozon spools of cotton and send me 8 yardes of Dottot whit Muslin Jeams and Douglass[1] send fore a suit of Broad Cloth Clothes and a Dozon Shirtes each fiftwen Dollars a Peac Jeames and Douglass Robenson Scoot send fore a foot axe and pleas to me twenty Dollars in money and i should to have the whiyp saw as soone as i can get Molly send worde to youe to send her 4 Barrels of flooers of and 2 Barrels of Pork thirty yardes of Unbleac Cotton and thirty yardes of Calicoe Dozon Pair of woman shoes number six and all soe a Barrel of Suggar and half a Dozon of men shoes number twelve and Spooles of Sootton Diffrent qality half Dozon Pair of Stock ings [Illeg.] Judah Hardon Send fore thirty yards of Calicoe and thirty yardes of unbleach cotton 4 pair man shoes number eleven and half a Dozon of Boyes Shoes about 7 or 8 years old and a whiyp saw 3 Barrelles of floower and a Barrel of Suggar 2 Barrel Pork and fifty Dollars in money Frances Barret if youe Pleas to send her one Barre of flouer one of Suggar too Barrels of Pork and and a Barrel of Mackrel twenty yardes of Bleach and unbleach cotton twenty yardes calicoe half a pair of stockings and Dozon Splooes of Cotton Diffrent qulty 4 pair of Shoes men shoes number nine half Dozon Pair of wom en shoes number 7 Dozon pair of Stockings and all soe Brier Blaid Milly Franklin if you Be pleas to send her 2 Barrels of flower and a Barrel of Suggar twenty yardes of Calicoe and twenty yardes of un bleach cotton 8 Pair of Stockings half a Pair of Shoes number Seven Rachel Mans if youe pleas to send her twenty yardes geames half a Dozon pair of Shoes 7 Dozon Pair Stockings Dozon Spooles of Cotton half Dozon Pair of Pocket hankerchef Vonnor [2] send fore if you pleas to send him 6 Barrels of flower and a Barrel of Moolasses and a Barrel of Mackrel 3 pair of shoes number nine 3 pair of sockes suit of sunday Clothes ten yardes of Blue Jean Henry[3] ask if you Pleas to send him a Barrel of Suggar and 4 Barrels of flower one of Pork and a Whiyp Saw and a suit of Brod Clth clothes and working Clothes and 2 hundred weight of toobaccoe and ten Dollars and 20 yardes of Blue jeanes Adline Southhall ask if and Lucy[4] ask if youe Pleas to send to them to gether 4 Barrel of flower 2 Barrels of Pork one Barrel of Suggar 2 Barrel of Mackrels one Box of shoes men shoes number ten and women shoes from nine to six 205 yardes of jeanes 205 yarde of Lawn and allsoe of cotton cloth and calicoe Dozon Spooles of Cotton Dozon Pair of Stocking 20 yardes of Bleach cotton and a Box of Ribbons and some [illeg.] sodar Margret Scoot if youe be pleas to send her 3 Barrell of flower on of Pork one of fish thirty yardes of Calicoe twenty yardes of jeanes thirty yardes of Bleach cotton one of Sugar Dozen Spooles of cotton and a box of shoes women shoes from nine to six boyes shoes from thirteen years old to seven years Billy Dugllas [5] if youe pleas to send him a suit of Brod Cloth Clothes and 20 yardes of Blue jeanes Box of Shoes from 21 to 8 half a Dozon of Shirtes all Ready Maide Grae Faran [6] is be pleas to send him 2 barrels flower on of Pork one of Mackrel half Dozon Pair of Shoes tens and 11 one Barels of Moolasses 20 yardes of cotton jeanes thirty yardes of Bleach hundred whet of toabaccoe half Dozon summer hats Patty Walker[7] sends her best respects to Doctor Minor and requests him to please to send her 4 barrels of flour and one of sugar and two of pork and one of mackerel her three boys please send them each suit of broad clothes and a box of boots and shoes No from ten to 7 mens and woman from 8 to five fifty yards of calico and the same of lawn and gingham fifty yard fifty yards of unbleached cotton two dozen of shirts all ready made fifty of blue cotton jeans for mens wear two dozen of stockings and a dozen pair of socks half a dozen bottles of castor oil, and some gingham handkerchiefs and some flax thread and two dozen spools of cotton — and when these things are sent please be particular in having them marked to each one so there will be no mistake please be particular in sending a memo of things so that there will be no mistake made they all join with me in love to you all wishs to hear from you soon no more remains
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80Author:  Walker, HughRequires cookie*
 Title:  Liberian Letters: Hugh Walker to Dr. James H. Minor 1857 March 4  
 Published:  1999 
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 Description: I sit down to addres a few lines to you to inform you that I am well but my wife has a severe attack of the acclimating fever and the rest are tolerable my three sons are out at a place called Careysburg settled by Mr Seys and they are doing well and have no sickness at all neither chills nor fever. I am much pleased with this place I am still travelling about trying to prepare a home for myself and family there has been a great many died since I last wrote for insts Robinson Scott and his son James, Patrick Mickey, Buck Thompson Richard Franklin, Jacob Twine, and his grand child Lucy twines son, and Cyrus Terrel, and, Francis Barrett and Samuel Carrs youngest child, two grandchildren of uncle Cy's these twelve have died since I last wrote the rest I think are getting better Samuel Carr has been quite sick but I think he is getting well again—William Douglass has wrote to you and the boys sent for things in it but what I wrote for you need not send as they desired me not to send for anything please send me a couple of brier blades we have taken into deep consideration how to live and to prepare to die while some are rejoicing at their friends going to a better house others are filled with grief at the thoughts of their future estate others have suffered with the fever I am left to go and I am invited to preach in the baptist and methodist and presbyterians
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