| | 103 | Author: | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 106 | Author: | Zitkala-Sa | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 107 | Author: | Zitkala-Sa | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 108 | Author: | 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.— | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 109 | Author: | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 111 | Author: | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 112 | Author: | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 115 | Author: | 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: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 117 | Author: | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 119 | Author: | New, Anthony | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 120 | Author: | Pleasants, James | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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