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161Author:  Knowes, Edward C.Add
 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
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162Author:  Mann, W. A. and Lusk, John A. M.Add
 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:
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163Author:  McKenney, W. D.Add
 Title:  Letter from W. D. McKenney to Paul Barringer, Oct. 7, 1896; [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: In Novem- ber last just after the fire that so se- riously damaged the University of Virginia our alumni resident here in Charleston held a meeting for the purpose of raising money to aid in the restoration of the buildings and refitting the departments.
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164Author:  Mead, William R.Add
 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.
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165Author:  Murray, StirlingAdd
 Title:  Diary of Stirling Murray, a fragment from 1816 dealing with the slave trade in Havana [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: The Slave trade was prosecuted very successfully whilst I was at Havana. Numbers of fast sailing vessels were constantly fitting out for the coast of Africa & several Cargoes of the horrible merchandize arrived. The slaves were taken out & carried to houses constructed expressly for them what were called the barracoons just without the walls of the city where they are well treated until restored to health & spirits.
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166Author:  New, AnthonyAdd
 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.
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167Author:  Pleasants, JamesAdd
 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.
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168Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 Title:  Poe Collection: Portions of "Marginalia" / Edgar Allan Poe  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: no greater torture than that of being charged with abnormal weakness on account of being abnormally strong.
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169Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 (transcriber)Add
 Title:  Lines from Milton / Edgar Allan Poe  
 Published:  1999 
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170Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 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.
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171Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to an unknown correspondent, 1836?  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: ber. there can be no impropriety in telling the commencement of Vol. 2.1 The editorial have devolved upon myself, and you allude to are my own. I with your approbation of my labours. would be very glad to hear from you I believe you had some little acquain- other W.H.L. Poe2 of Baltimore.
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172Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 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:
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173Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 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
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174Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 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.
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175Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 Title:  Poe Collection: Portion of "The Rationale of Verse" / Edgar Allan Poe  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: 18
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176Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter, Edgar Allan Poe to Miss Lucy D. Henry, 1843 June 20  
 Published:   
 Description: It gives me pleasure to com-ply with the very flattering request cont-ained in your letter to my sister of March 26th.
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177Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 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.
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178Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 Title:  Poe Collection: Promissory note signed by Edgar Allan Poe, 1826 December 14  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: 41.36/100 On Demand I promise to pay to Dan S. Mosby Co. or order Forty one Dollars and Thirty Six cents, current money of Virginia, for value received—As witness my hand and seal this 14 day of December 1826
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179Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Beverly Tucker, 1835 December 1  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: Mr. White was so kind as to read me some portions of your letter to himself, dated Nov 29, and I feel compelled as much by gratitude for your many friendly expressions of interest on my behalf, as by a desire to make some little ex- planations, to answer, personally, the passages alluded to.
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180Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 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.
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