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101Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, May [25], 1826  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I this morning recieved the clothes you sent me, viz an uniform coat, six yards of striped cloth for pantaloons & four pairs of socks — The coat is a beautiful one & fits me exactly — I thought it best not to write 'till I recieved the clothes — or I should have written before this. You have heard no doubt of the disturbances in College Soon after you left here the Grand Jury met and put the students in a terrible fright — so much so that the lectures were unattended — and those whose names were up on the Sheriff's list —travelled off into the woods & mountains — taking their beds and provisions along with them —there were about 50 on the list — so you may suppose the College was very well thinned — this was the first day of the fright the second day, "A proclamation was issued by the faculty forbidding "any students under pain of a major punishment to leave his dormitory between the hours of 8 & 10 A M — (at which time the Sheriffs would be about) or in any way to resist the lawful authority of the Sheriffs"— This order however was very little attended to — as the fear of the Faculty could not counterbalance that of the Grand Jury — most of the "indicted" ran off a second time into the woods and upon an examination the next morning by the Fa- culty — Some were reprimanded —some suspended and one expelled— James Albert Clark from Manchester. (I went to school with him at Barke's) was suspended for two months. Armstead Carter from this neighbourhood, for the remainder of the session — And Thomas Barclay for ever— There have been several fights since you were here— One between Turner Dixon and Blow from Nor- folk excited more interest than any I have seen, for a common fight is so trifling an occurrence that no notice is taken of it — Blow got much the advantage in the scuffle — but Dixon posted him in very indecent terms— upon which the whole Norfolk party rose in arms — & nothing was talked off for a week, but Dixon's charge & Blow's explanation — every pillar in the University was white with scratched paper — Dixon made an a physical attack upon Arthur Smith one of Blow's Norfolk friends — and a "very fine fellow". he struck him with a large stone on one side of his head — whereupon Smith drew a pistol (which are all the fashion here) and had it not miss- fire— would have put an end to the controversy. but so it was— it did miss fire — and the matter has since been more peaceably setled — as the Proctor engaged a Magistrate to bind the whole forces on both sides — over to the peace — Give my love to Ma & Miss Nancy -& all my friends —
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102Author:  Allan, JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from John Allan to Edgar Allan Poe, 1829 May 18  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I duly recd your letter from Baltimore on Saturday but seeing Col Preston I gave it to him to read. I have not yet recovered possession. The contents however, are on my mind. I was agreeably pleased to hear that the Honourable Jms J Barber did interest himself so much in your favour He perhaps remembered you when you were at the Springs in 1812. from the interest exhibited by the Secratary of War you stand a fair chance I think of being one of those selected for Sept. Col. Preston wrote a warm letter in your favour to Major Eaton since your departure. Major Campbell left this for Washington on yesterday. While you are in Maryland, assertain & get Certificate of the fact whether your Grandfather was in the Service during the revoly war. where he served.[1] Rank & &. it may be of service & cannot do you any harm. I cover a Bank check of Virga on the union Bank of Maryland (this date) of Baltimore for one Hundred Dollars payable to your order be prudent and careful
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103Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 July 26  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I received yours of the 19th on the 22d ulto & am truly thankful for the money which you sent me, notwithstanding the taunt with which it was given "that men of genius ought not to apply to your aid"—It is too often their necessity to want that little timely assistance which would prevent such applications—
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104Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 August 4  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I am unable to account for your not answering—if you are offended with me—I repeat that I have done nothing to deserve your displeasure If you doubt what I say & think that I have ne— glected to use any exertions in the procuring my warrant—write yourself to Mr Eaton & he will tell you that more exertions could not have been—the appt might have been obtained for June if the application had been made 2 months sooner & you will remember that I was under the impression that you were making exertions to obtain the situation for me, while I was at Old Point & so situated as to be unable to use any exertions of my own—On returning home nothing had been done—it is therefore unjust to blame me for a failure, after using every endeavour, when success was impossible rendered so by your own delay—
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105Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 August 10  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I received yours this morning which re— leived me from more trouble than you can well imagine—I was afraid that you were offended & although I knew that I had done nothing to deserve your anger, I was in a most uncom -fortable situation—without one cent of money —in a strange place & so quickly engaged in dif- -ficulties after the serious misfortunes which I have just escaped—My grandmother is ex- -tremely poor & ill (paralytic) My aunt Maria if possible still worse & Henry entirely given up to drink & unable to help himself, much less me—
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106Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, September 21, 1826  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: The whole college1 has been put in great consternation by the prospect of an examination— There is to be a general one on the first of December, which will occupy the time of the students till the fifteenth — the time for breaking up — It has not yet been determined whether there will be any diplomas, or doctor's degrees given — but I should hardly think there will be any such thing, as this is only the second year of the institution & in other colleges three and four years are required in order to take a degree — that is, that time is supposed to be necessary — altho they sometimes confer them before — if the applicants are qualified.
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107Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, Esq, December 1, 1828  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: The letter of Lieut J. Howard left by Mr John O. Lay for your perusal will explain the cause of my writing from Fort Moultrie.
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108Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1828 December 22  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I wrote you shortly before leaving Fort Moultrie & am much hurt at receiving no answer. Perhaps my letter has not reached you & under that supposition I will recapitulate its contents. It was chiefly to sollicit your interest in freeing me from the Army of the U.S. in which (as Mr. Lay's letter from Lieut Howard informed you) I am at present a soldier. I begged that you would suspend any judgement you might be inclined to form, upon many untoward circumstances, until you heard of me again — & begged you to give my dearest love to Ma & solicit her not to let my wayward disposition wear away the affection she used to have for me. I mentioned that all that was necessary to obtain my discharge from the army was your consent in a letter to Lieut J. Howard, who has heard of you by report, & the high character given you by Mr. Lay; this being all that I asked at your hands, I was hurt at your declining to answer my letter. Since arriving at Fort Moultrie Lieut Howard has given me an introduction to Col. James House of the 1st Arty to whom I was before personally known only as a soldier of his regiment. He spoke kindly to me. told me that he was personally acquainted with my Grandfather Genl. Poe [1], with yourself & family, & reassured me of my immediate discharge upon your consent. It must have been a matter of regret to me, that when those who were strangers took such deep interest in my welfare, that you who called me your son should refuse me even the common civility of answering a letter. If it is your wish to forget that I have been your son I am too proud to remind you of it again. I only beg you to remember that you yourself cherished the cause of my leaving your family. Ambition. If it has not taken the channel you wished it, it is not the less certain of its object. Richmond & the U. States were too narrow a sphere & the world shall be my theatre.
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109Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 February 4  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I wrote you some time ago from this place but have as yet received no reply. Since that time I wrote to John Mc.Kenzie desiring him to see you personally & desire for me, of you, that you would interest yourself in procuring me a cadets' appointment at the Military Academy.
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110Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Requires cookie*
 Title:  Poe Collection: Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to John Allan, 1829 March 10  
 Published:  1999 
 Description: I arrived on the point this morning, in good health, and if it were not for late occur- -rences, should feel much happier than I have for a long time.[2] I have had a fearful warning, & have hardly ever known before what distress was.
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111Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Octave Thanet  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WHEN, a decade ago, some one asked "Octave Thanet" to state where she would like to live, her reply was: "Nowhere all the year round." And if you care to make an attempt to trace Miss French's whereabouts you will very likely discover that she is living up to her declaration. A modern captain of industry is not more at home anywhere than this delightful writer of short stories — a literary lapidary she might well be termed, so absolutely clean-cut and brilliant is her work. Miss French has been complimented by pastmasters of the art of literary criticism for work of a widely diversified character. She shows a remarkable familiarity with life in our bustling west, as well as with that of our less assertive south. We marvel at this, when we consider that her birth and education is of New England. However, the fact that fate compelled her to take up residence in Iowa, and inclination led her to spend a part of the year in the south, accounts for those characteristics in her work that are reflective of the sections, and which might possibly puzzle an unsophisticated reader concerning the personality of the author.
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112Author:  Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Gulliver of Mars  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: DARE I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the love of a woman—for a chimera in female shape; for a pale, vapid ghost of woman-loveliness? At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I must write it—the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten. The tumult of the struggle into which that vision led me still throbs in my mind, the soft, lisping voices of the planet I ransacked for its sake and the roar of the destruction which followed me back from the quest drowns all other sounds in my ears! I must and will write—it relieves me; read and believe as you list.
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113Author:  Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956Requires cookie*
 Title:  "Hosts and Guests"  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: BEAUTIFULLY vague though the English language is, with its meanings merging into one another as softly as the facts of landscape in the moist English climate, and much addicted though we always have been to ways of compromise, and averse from sharp hard logical outlines, we do not call a host a guest, nor a guest a host. The ancient Romans did so. They, with a language that was as lucid as their climate and was a perfect expression of the sharp hard logical outlook fostered by that climate, had but one word for those two things. Nor have their equally acute descendants done what might have been expected of them in this matter. Hôte and ospite and huesped are as mysteriously equivocal as hospes. By weight of all this authority I find myself being dragged to the conclusion that a host and a guest must be the same thing, after all. Yet in a dim and muzzy way, deep down in my breast, I feel sure that they are different. Compromise, you see, as usual. I take it that strictly the two things are one, but that our division of them is yet another instance of that sterling common sense by which, etc., etc.
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114Author:  Canfield, DorothyRequires cookie*
 Title:  Poet and Scullery-Maid / By Dorothy Canfield  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ONCE upon a time there was a little scullery-maid, who, like all scullery-maids, spent most of her time in a kitchen. It was the kitchen of a boarding-house, and you can imagine what a disagreeable place it was — full of unpleasant smells, and usually piled high with dirty dishes which the scullery-maid must wash. It was dark, it was greasy, the cook had a bad temper, and the chimney smoked.
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115Author:  Canfield, DorothyRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Story of Ralph Miller / By Dorothy Canfield ; Author of "A Philanthropic Honeymoon," "The Rescue," "Moonshine"  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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116Author:  Canfield, DorothyRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Piano / By Dorothy Canfield; Author of "The Rescue," "The Story of Ralph Miller," ETC.  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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117Author:  Canfield, DorothyRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Rescue / By Dorothy Canfield.  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE old man controlled himself with a violent effort, and stopped his storming commands, daunted by the face of fierce opposition which the girl turned to him. He wheeled about and relieved his mind by a few clamorous, angry chords on the great piano against which he was leaning. There was a moment's silence before he faced her again — a silence full of faint reminiscent murmurs and echoes from the music-soaked walls of the bare little room. The tense rigidity of the girl's slenderness relaxed a little; and when the master again looked at her, the stormy light of revolt was gone from her eyes, leaving their usual curious, half-absent brooding.
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118Author:  Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Partners  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: AMONG the human flotsam and jetsam that followed in the wake of the Civil War, there drifted into a certain Southern town, shortly after the surrender, two young colored men, named respectively William Cain and Rufus Green. They had made each other's acquaintance in a refugee camp attached to an army cantonment, and when the soldiers went away, William and Rufus were thrown upon their own resources. They were fast friends, and discussed with each other the subject of their future.
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119Author:  Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Middle-Aged Woman  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: CHOOSE any artist that you know — the one with the kindliest nature and the finest perceptions — and ask him to give you his idea of the genius of the commonplace, and any word for it, he paints you a middle-aged woman. The thing, he will say, proves itself. Here is a creature jogging on leisurely at midday in the sight of all men along a well-tramped road. The mists of dawn are far behind her; she has not yet reached the shadows of evening. The softness and blushes, and shy, sparkling glances of the girl she was, have long been absorbed into muddy thick skin, sodden outlines, rational eyes. There are crows' feet at either temple, and yellowish blotches on the flesh below the soggy under-jaw. Her chestnut-brown hair used to warm and glitter in the sun, and after a few years it will make a white crown upon her head, a sacred halo to her children; but just now it is stiff with a greasy hair dye, and is of an unclean and indescribable hue.
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120Author:  Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886Requires cookie*
 Title:  "The Sleeping Flowers"  
 Published:  1999 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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