| | 201 | Author: | Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to John Sullivan Dwight, 1844 April 23  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | It would be uninteresting to recount the
manifold little hindrances, which have delayed my an-
-swer to your refreshing and most welcome letter. Suffice
it to say, that it has not been because I do not always
carry the memory of you in my heart. You are one of
the few whom I want to go into heaven with, and stay
near forever. Your letter exhilerated me like a
shower-bath. It made me feel more cheerful and strong
for weeks after. I am glad my letter about Ole Bulbul
found such an echo in your soul. It is a proof to me that
I struck a chord in the "everlasting chime". If I did
say "the very best thing that was ever said about music",
it must have been Ole Bulbul's violin that told it
to me. You, unfortunately, know so much,
that this Shakespeare of the violin may not delight you
as he did me. I have known nothing like it, in my ex-
-perience of pleasure. Perhaps none but the ignorant
could feel such a rush of uncriticising, overwhelming
joy. Connoisseurs give the palm to Vieux Temps; but
I persist in my belief that France made him, and
Mr. Child is still at Washington, or he would send a
heart full of kind remembrance.
God made Ole Bull. I have certain theories about the
nations, which makes it difficult for me to believe that
France ever goes very deeply into the heart of things,
though her mechanism of all the external of man and
of society is most perfect. The application of this theory
may, of course, be very unjust to individuals. Shall I
confess my weakness ? I am not quite willing to be con-
-vinced that the genius of the French minstrel equals
that of the Norwegian. I can not explain exactly why;
except that my imagination has anointed and crowned
Ole Bull king of the realms of sound, and is willing to
admit no rival. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 202 | Author: | Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel Stillman Osgood, 1842 | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | This is the young
friend of whom I spoke to you.
His inclination to cultivate your
art is very strong, and he has in-
-telligence, quickness of perception,
and it appears to me an uncommon-
-ly correct eye for outline. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 203 | Author: | Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Frances Locke, n.d. [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | In looking around my humble little
parlour for some memento of our cottage to bestow upon
you, I could think of nothing more appropriate than my
perfectly proportioned inkstand and arrowy pen. They
have little value in themselves, but they come from one
whose heart is full of sincere affection for you.
God bless you, my dear young friend, and preserve
that pure simplicity of character, which makes you
such a diamond in the desert of this pretending world. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 204 | Author: | Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Lucy Ann, April, 1878 [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | It would be
more proper to write Dear Miſs
Brooks; but, in memory of the old
times, when I called you Mam'selle
Sac, such an address seems too
formal. Moreover, it does not
represent the affectionate feelings
with which the memory of you is
surrounded. So, though we are both
white-headed, let the girlish epithet
remain. We are both children in
heart. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 206 | Author: | Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Rebel Faulkner [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | This gentleman is now a prisoner at Fort Warren; having taken
up arms against the U.S. for the purpose of establishing a
government avowedly based on Slavery, and for the sake
of with the explicit avowal that Slavery shall be introduced
and sustained all over the continent. To judge how he has
fallen, it is only necessary to read his own description of the
baneful effects of Slavery. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 207 | Author: | Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Mr. Higginson, 1859 July 4 | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | I am sorry I wrote
to you about feeling lonely; for from what
I hear, I judge that it troubled your kind
heart. Now I beg leave to inform you that
cheerfulness is my normal condition. I am
too busy doing all sorts of things, to find
much time to be lonely. Then my passion
for cultivating flowers is so intense, and
my interest in the habits of every little
bird and beast is so amusing, that I
seldom lack company. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 208 | Author: | Cooper, James Fenimore | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Preface and initial pages of The Pathfinder [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | The plan of this tale is old, having suggested itself to the writer, many years since
though the details are altogether of recent invention. The idea of associating seamen and
savages, in the incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes,
having been mentioned to a publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge
from the author, to carry out the design at
some future day whose pledge is
now tardily and imperfectly redeemed. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 209 | 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 |
| 213 | 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 |
| 219 | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Rabbit-pen | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN a wire pen beside the gravel path, Fordyce, walking in the
garden of his friend Harkness and imagining marriage, came upon a
tragedy. A litter of new-born rabbits lay upon the straw scattered
about the pen. They were blind; they were hairless; they were
blue-black of body; they oscillated their heads in mute appeal. In
the center of the pen lay one of the tiny things, dead. Above the
little dead body a struggle went on. The mother rabbit fought the
father furiously. A wild fire was in her eyes. She rushed at the
huge fellow again and again. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 220 | Author: | Wharton review: Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | About Mrs. Wharton, in "Chronicle and Comment" | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | According to certain chroniclers in the daily press, Mrs. Wharton
is going to write no more long novels, but will devote herself to
serious historical composition. We are glad that she has abjured long
novels, but deplore her intention of becoming an historian. There are
scores of historians busily at work, many of them very good ones, but
where shall we find another writer who could give us such remarkable
work as that contained in The Greater Inclination? It is pure
perversity to give up doing the thing that one can do best in order to
waste time over that which many others can do better. We have a
certain right to speak out frankly on this subject, because we were
among the very first to greet Mrs. Wharton as a writer of very rare
gifts and of unusual distinction. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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