| | 1 | Author: | Howells
William Dean
1837-1920 | Add | | | Title: | The Rise of Silas Lapham  | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | When Bartley Hubbard went to interview Silas
Lapham for the "Solid Men of Boston" series, which
he undertook to finish up in The Events, after he
replaced their original projector on that newspaper,
Lapham received him in his private office by previous
appointment. "Will you and General Lapham—" Dear Friend,—I expected when I sent you that note,
that you would understand, almost the next day, why I
could not see you any more. You must know now, and
you must not think that if anything happened to my
father, I should wish you to help him. But that is no
reason why I should not thank you, and I do thank you,
for offering. It was like you, I will say that. Dearest,—What I did was nothing, till you praised it.
Everything I have and am is yours. Won't you send a line
by the bearer, to say that I may come to see you? I know
how you feel; but I am sure that I can make you think
differently. You must consider that I loved you without
a thought of your father's circumstances, and always shall. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | Alexander
James
1804-1887 | Add | | | Title: | Early Charlottesville | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The author of these sketches was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, March 4, 1804, the eldest son of James
Alexander and Elizabeth Williston, his wife. In Memoirs
which he prepared for his descendants he states that
he came of early colonial stock. His maternal greatgrandmother
was Ann Brown McMillan, a direct descendant
of John(?) Brown who came over in the Mayflower
in 1620. This early ancestor served as town crier
for the village of Boston and his descendants are buried
in the old Copps Hill Cemetery, "from the first settlement
of that place." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | unknown | Add | | | Title: | The Book of the Poe Centenary | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE University of Virginia has nothing
with which to reproach herself in her
treatment of Edgar Allan Poe. Through ill
report and good he was followed with her maternal
solicitude and misgivings, but never with
her reproof or wrath. In his college days she
may have been too lenient, but in the days of
his fame she is not constrained by any hobgoblin
of consistency to withhold her praise. She
has, therefore, had peculiar pride in witnessing
his universal acclaim as a man of genius and as
a singularly forceful agency in compelling international
recognition of our American literature.
Her anxiety is no longer lest he be not
recognized at his real worth, but lest, in the
ardor of revived enthusiasm, his real merit,
however high, be overrated and his rightful
place, so tardily won, jeopardized by claims too
sweeping and superlative. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Author: | O'Neal
William Bainter | Add | | | Title: | Jefferson's Fine Arts Library for the University of Virginia | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was Thomas Jefferson who originally selected and arranged
for the purchase of the fine arts books at the University
of Virginia. A few of the very volumes acquired by
Jefferson for the University's library have survived the
ravages of time and fire, and in recent years an effort has
been made to replace all books in the original group that
have not survived. Books ordered but never acquired are
also being searched for. Limited funds and limited opportunities
have left a list of works needed that is still a long
one, but a report on the projected reassembly is in order
for several reasons. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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