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101Author:  Wilkins, Mary E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  After the Rain.  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: After the Rain Image of the text page, with illustration in the left border
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102Author:  Wilkins, Mary E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  "Eglantina"  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: These verses were cut and skilfully colored, illuminated after a simple fashion, on a window-shutter in the east parlor of the old Litchfield house, in Litchfield Village.
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103Author:  Wilkins, Mary E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Lost Dog.  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE dog was speeding, nose to the ground; he had missed his master early in the morning; now it was late afternoon, but at last he thought he was on his track. He went like a wind, his ears pointed ahead, his slender legs seemingly flat against his body; he was eagerness expressed by a straight line of impetuous motion. He had had nothing to eat all day; he was spent with anxiety and fatigue and hunger; but now, now, he believed he was on his master's track, and all that was forgotten.
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104Author:  Wilkins, Mary E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Love and the Witches  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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105Author:  Zitkala-SaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Old Indian Legends  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IKTOMI is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders.
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106Author:  Zitkala-SaRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Soft-Hearted Sioux  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: BESIDE the open fire I sat within our tepee. With my red blanket wrapped tightly about my crossed legs, I was thinking of the coming season, my sixteenth winter. On either side of the wigwam were my parents. My father was whistling a tune between his teeth while polishing with his bare hand a red stone pipe he had recently carved. Almost in front of me, beyond the centre fire, my old grandmother sat near the entranceway.
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107Author:  Zitkala-SaRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Trial Path  
 Published:  1995 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IT was an autumn night on the plain. The smoke-lapels of the cone-shaped tepee flapped gently in the breeze. From the low night sky, with its myriad fire points, a large bright star peeped in at the smoke-hole of the wigwam between its fluttering lapels, down upon two Dakotas talking in the dark. The mellow stream from the star above, a maid of twenty summers, on a bed of sweet-grass, drank in with her wakeful eyes. On the opposite side of the tepee, beyond the centre fireplace, the grandmother spread her rug. Though once she had lain down, the telling of a story has aroused her to a sitting posture.
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108Author:  Brooke, M.L.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Brooke family correspondence Assen.No.38 137  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I fancy you at the Powhatan to night and I hope that instead of one letter you will get two from me, there must be some irregular -ity in the mails. I have never failed to write you twice a week and you ought to have receivd a letter before you left Richmond — for St. Julian — if you get both letters you will acknowledge the recip't of them— oh how delighted I should have been at an unespected visit from you and I could not help feeling disappointed that you thought of coming and did not do so but I think you acted wisely — I know if you had consulted your inclination alonethat you would have spent your Christmas with us. You see I am not jealous but I eny Pa his happiness— and hope you had a pleasant trip— I am alone with no other company than John and Juliet— M & V. are at their Grand Pa's I am lonely enough but I was afraid to keep Margaret at home least she should incur then Grand Pa's displeasure, She told him that I would be alone and it seem'd to fret him and I've linquis -hed my claims at once, tho' reluctantly I aſsure you they will be gone all week I expect Juliet tomorrow or the next day I wrote to Father that I should keep him here— Sandy Stuart writes that she was much admired in Washington Staunton is very dull I never knew it as much so as this season— Mr Hamilton was here a few days ago Judge Baldwin examined him and he is now at Judge Smith's will be here tomorrow night— he has concluded to settle in Lexington after a visit to Lynchburg— he has many schemes to numerous to mention in a letter thinks that he can keep house on less than he can board for— which is 300 Dollars— they will beat me in management if they do and hire servants— Mat will not be down this winter——our servants are all hired to the institutions Mary and Ann— we get 40 dolars for it is the best home for them I think I did not consult Ann;— I hold Joe at 120 dollars and expect to get it— he remains at the hospital they can't do without him and must pay for him— John will bring the same— Beverly has not come I expect him this week— Charlotte will be here tomorrow— I never had as little anxiety about hiring the servants— and never did better— Doct. Berkeley has all this on his hands and no homes for them yet— I was there today delivered your message— but he did not say that you should get more things I suppose he will write if he still wants them—my groceries have not arrived yet— I will write as soon as I get them—you would laugh if you could take a peep at my table with two plates and cups on it—me at the head and John at the foot— doing like pa he says he is very attentive to my wants and says if I write you that he is a bad boy he will tane the letters up. he wants to send you some ginger cakes for a Christmaſ gift— Juliet says yet I want to see my Pa—She wont forget you She improves daily I think—they rise every morning before day light and are as merry as crikets— the airtight stove is the greatest comfort to us we manage it better this winter and I could not do without it. Some cold mornings I sit all day in the dining room which is very comfortable the stove burns much less wood than the fire place place did and is much warmer—do write often devote all your leisure moments to me this is asking very little— when you have so few— I think of you all the time. I will write you by Judge Baldwin — Sister Beverly says do send your love to her sometimes I tell her that I cannot share your love with any body— She thinks me very selfish.—
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109Author:  Cabell, William D.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from William D. Cabell to his brother Joseph [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: Your very interesting letter came safely to hand and I expected to reply to it by last mail but was prevented from so doing and must now do what I have so long neglected doing. But first to our busineſs: a letter of Mrs. Carrs arrived by the same mail that yours did and that has all been attended to; a draft has been for-warded to her for $75 on your aſc in payment of your bill with her for the last half of your last seſsion with her as boarder &c. No doubt the bill is all correct. You are charged with wood also — but credited only by $20. This renders it neceſsary to curtail my remittance to you and therefore enclosed you have one draft for $75 being as much as I could well remit you at present. I hope it may answer your purposes for the present. The draft will paſs for money with any accommodating merchant who has opportunities to present it.
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110Author:  Childs, Starling W.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Starling W. Childs to Miss Mary-Stuart Smith, Nov. 17, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: Thank you very much for sending me the papers about the fire.
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111Author:  Cocke, Chas. H.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Chas. H. Cocke to M. Louise Cocke, Nov. 3, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I am very much obliged for your kind letter. The University fire was a great shock to me. It haunted me night & day at first. I felt & feel as though a temple had been profaned. No loyal alumnus can fail to feel a personal loss. If the alumni's ability equaled their inclinations, I feel sure the work of restoration would be but a matter of time, and that the shortest necessary. The limitations of poverty in such crises are most sorely felt. What a pleasure it would be to be able to give a million straight down at once to restore and re-equip the buildings, in such order and style as the authorities might deem best! As it is, while my heart was full and my purse empty, I had to force back the words that rushed forward for expression of my sympathy & sorrow and content myself with sending Dr. Thornton a meagre declaration of my willingness to do anything in the power of an impecunious alumnus! I knew he would be deluged with telegrams & letters, so I was brief.
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112Author:  Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911Requires cookie*
 Title:  Pay of Colored Troops  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: The following is the petition in respect to the arrears of pay due a portion of the colored troops, to which reference was lately made under our telegraphic head.
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113Author:  Hubard, Robert ThrustonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Robert Thruston Hubard's Negroes in Buckingham [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: THE COACH DOG
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114Author:  Hughes, Robert M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter from Robert M. Hughes to Armistead Gordon, Nov. 26, 1895 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1995 
 Description: I have been intending to write to you on the subject of the University fire for some time, but my engagements in court lately have been very engrossing and I have not had the opportunity until now.
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115Author:  Mann, W. A. and Lusk, John A. M.Requires cookie*
 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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116Author:  McKenney, W. D.Requires cookie*
 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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117Author:  Mead, William R.Requires cookie*
 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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118Author:  Murray, StirlingRequires cookie*
 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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119Author:  New, AnthonyRequires cookie*
 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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120Author:  Pleasants, JamesRequires cookie*
 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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