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201Author:  Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880Requires 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.
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202Author:  Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880Requires 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.
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203Author:  Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880Requires 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.
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204Author:  Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880Requires 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.
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205Author:  Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Mr. Purvis, 1868 August 14 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: I received your letter, and I thank you for it. It is grati- -fying to know that my efforts are appreciated by a gentleman for whom I entertain such sincere respect.
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206Author:  Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880Requires 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.
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207Author:  Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880Requires 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.
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208Author:  Cooper, James FenimoreRequires 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.
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209Author:  Cooper, James FenimoreRequires 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.
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210Author:  Healy, Elliot MuseRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter, 3 November 1859 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: It has been but a very short time since I wrote, but as you have assured me that my letters did not bore you all, I have determined to write again.
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211Author:  Kane, Mr.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter inviting Miss Linn for a ride, n.d. [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: Mr Kane compliments to Miss Linn & wishes to know if it will be agreeable to Miss L. to take a ride this after -noon at 4' o'clock. The distance & course to be settled by Miss L. when we take our departure.
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212Author:  Kane, ElizaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter inviting Mrs. Brown and Miss Linn to tea, n.d.  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: Permit me to request the favor of Mrs. Brown & Miss Linn's company to tea this evening. I expect Mrs. Bayard and the addition of your society will contribute much to the happiness of your friend.
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213Author:  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
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214Author:  Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888Requires cookie*
 Title:  Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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215Author:  Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899Requires cookie*
 Title:  John Maynard: A Ballad of Lake Erie  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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216Author:  Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899Requires cookie*
 Title:  Voices of the Past  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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217Author:  Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Welcome to May  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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218Author:  Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Door of the Trap  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WINIFRED WALKER understood some things clearly enough. She understood that when a man is put behind iron bars he is in prison. Marriage was marriage to her.
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219Author:  Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941Requires 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.
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220Author:  Wharton review: AnonymousRequires 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.
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