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181Author:  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
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182Author:  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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183Author:  Wharton review: AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Abode of the Fool's Heart  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Edith WhartonThree-quarter profile portrait of Edith Wharton. Photographer unknown.
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184Author:  Wharton review: AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Guide to the New Books [excerpt].  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Photographic portrait of Mrs. Wharton in three-quarter profile. Photographer unknown.
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185Author:  Wharton review: AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Note on Edith Wharton, in "Chronicle and Comment"  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: If we were to single out one book from those that have been published this season as exhibiting in the highest degree that rare creative power called literary genius, we should name The Greater Inclination, by Edith Wharton. The book has met with a fair reception in the press, but it does not seem to us that enough emphasis has been laid upon the originality of the work. And not only has Mrs. Wharton brought to these stories a remarkable power of insight and imagination, but the phase of life in America which she has chosen for treatment may be said to be altogether new in her hands. Her work is the more remarkable when we know that the processes by which her results are reached have been gained largely through intuition and sympathy. One would almost imagine in reading these stories that the author must have suffered and gone deep into life in order to bring up from its depths such knowledge of the world as is disclosed in her pages. And yet this is far from being the case. Mrs. Wharton was born little more than thirty years ago in New York. On both sides she comes of old New York stock, her mother being a Rhinelander. Most of her time has been spent between New Greyscale image of Edith Wharton with two dogs, one perched on her right shoulder, the other in her left arm. York and Newport, and she has also lived abroad, especially in Italy, of which country she is very fond. Her husband, Mr. Edward Wharton, is a member of the Philadelphia family of that name, and was married to Miss Edith Jones fully ten years ago. Both are passionately fond of animals, and have been for years the moving spirits in the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Rhode Island. The photograph which we present of Mrs. Wharton with her two pet dogs is the only one that was available for reproduction here, but it is very characteristic when we bear in mind her love of animals. Her first stories began to appear in Scribner's and the Century some years ago; one of them especially, called "Mrs. Manstey's View," published in Scribner's, attracted a great deal of attention at the time of its appearance. She is also the author of a book on domestic architecture and home decoration, published by the Messrs. Scribner, which was reviewed in these pages a year ago last April. A review of The Greater Inclination appears on another page.
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186Author:  White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918Requires cookie*
 Title:  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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187Author:  Williams, William CarlosRequires cookie*
 Title:  Six Poems  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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188Author:  Wilkins, Mary E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Squirrel.  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE Squirrel lived with his life-long mate near the farm-house. He considered himself very rich, because he owned an English walnut tree. Neither he nor his mate had the least doubt that it belonged to them and not to the Farmer. There were not many like it in the State or the whole country. It was a beautiful tree, with a mighty spread of branches full of gnarled strength. Nearly every year there was a goodly promise of nuts, which never came to anything, so far as the people in the farm-house were concerned. Every summer they looked hopefully at the laden branches, and said to each other, "This year we shall have nuts," but there were never any. They could not understand it. But they were old people; had there been boys in the family it might have been different. Probably they would have solved the mystery. It was simple enough. The Squirrel and his mate considered the nuts as theirs, and appropriated them. They loved nuts; they were their natural sustenance; and through having an unquestioning, though unwitting, belief in Providence, they considered that nuts which grew within their reach were placed there for them as a matter of course. There were the Squirrels, and there were the nuts. No nuts, no Squirrels! The conclusion was obvious to such simple intelligences.
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189Author:  Wharton review: Winter, CalvinRequires cookie*
 Title:  Representative American Story Tellers: XVI— Edith Wharton  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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190Author:  Zitkala-SaRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Warrior's Daughter  
 Published:  1996 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Bush in foreground; indians (Native Americans) on horseback riding near teepees on the plain. Feathered headdress ornamenting the frame of the illustration.
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191Author:  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Angelica Schuyler Church (February 17, 1788) [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: You speak, Madam, in your Note of Adieu, of civilities which I never rendered you. what you kindly call such were but the gra- -tifications of my own heart: for indeed that was much gratified in seeing and serving you. The morning, you left us, all was wrong. even the sun shine was provoking, with which I never quarelled before. I took it into my head he shone only to throw light on our loss : to pre- -sent a chearfulness not at all in unison with my mind. I mounted my horse earlier than common, & took by instinct the road you had taken. some spirit whispered this to me : but he whispered by halves only : for, when I turned about at St. Denis, had he told me you were then broke down at Luzarches, I should certainly have spurred on to that place, & perhaps not have quitted you till I had seen the carriage perform it's office fully by deporting you at Boulogne. I went in the evening to Madame de Corny's, where we talked over our woes, & this morning I found some solace in going for Kitty & the girls. she is now here, just triste enough to shew her affection, & at the same time her discretion. I think I have discovered a method of preventing this dejection of mind on any future parting. it is this. when you come again, I will employ myself solely in finding or fancying that you have some faults, & I will draw a veil over all your good qualities, if I can find one large enough. I think I shall succeed in this, for, trying myself to-day, by way of exercise, I recollected immediately one fault in your composition. it is that you give all your attention to your Image of manuscript page 2 Image of manuscript page 2 friends, caring nothing about yourself. now you must agree that I chris- -tian this very mildly when I call it a folly only. and I dare say I shall find many like it when I examine you with more sang froid. I remember you told me, when we parted, you would come to see me at Monticello. now tho' I believe this to be impossible, I have been planning what I would shew you : a flower here, a tree there; yonder a grove, near it a fountain; on this side a hill, on that a river. indeed, madam, I know nothing so charming as our own country. the learned say it is a new creation; and I believe them; not for their reasons, but because it is made on an improved plan. Europe is a first idea, a crude pro- -duction, before the maker knew his trade, or had made up his mind as to what he wanted. let us go back to it together then . you intend it a visit, so do I. while you are indulging with your friends on the Hudson, I will go to see if Monticello remains in the same place or I will attend you to the falls of Niagara, if you will go on with me to the passage of the Patowmac, the Natural bridge etc. this done, we will come back together, you for a long, & I for a lesser time. Think of this plan, and when you come to pay your summer's visit to Kitty we will talk it over.
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192Author:  Alexander, CharlesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to George H. Robinson, 27 November 1867 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: You will receive per Stmr. Wanasit 43 Bags containing 64 Bus: Corn Shipped by John Mason /coloured/ also 13 Bags Containing Bus. Corn Shipped by James Beverly /coloured. There are seven bags remaining of the lot sent down by you yesterday which will be filled with corn and sent to you by Wanasit on Sunday next, sent shipped to you by William Robertson /coloured/ who requests me to ask you to send him Twenty /20/ bags by the Boat on friday next to hold the balance of the corn he has on hand, John Mason wishes you to sell his corn and retain the money in your hands until he calls for it — William Robertson wishes you to sell to sell his corn and pay the money to John Mason.
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193Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years; August 19, 1865 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: This Indenture, made this 19th day of August, in the year Eighteen hundred & Sixty five between 1st Lieut. Ab S Dial A.A.A. Gen'l J. B. 7th Dist. Va. of the one part, and John F. Hawkins of the County of Bedford of the other part, Witnesseth, That the said Lieut Ab S Dial &c. &c. by virtue of the authority in him vested as Military (Commandant agent aforesaid, hath put and bound, and doth by These Presents, put and bind Susan— a free Girl of color, of the said County, and being of the age of Five years, to be Apprenticed to the said John F Hawkins to learn the Business of a house servant, and with him to dwell and remain and serve until She, the aid Susan —, shall obtain the age of Eighteen ears; during all which time, she, the said Susan—, — — faithfully shall serve and obey, all secrets keep, and all lawful commands willingly do and perform; and shall not absent herself from the service of her master day or night, without his leave; but shall, in all things, as a faith- ful Apprentice, behave herself towards her master, and all his family, during the said term: and the said John F Hawkins doth hereby covenant, promise and agree to, and with the said Lieut A. S. Dial &c and his succeſsors in office, that he the said John F Hawkins will instruct said Apprentice in the business of a houseservant (which now Ann useth), shall and will teach and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in the best manner that he can, and shall and will provide and allow unto the said Apprentice, during all the said term, competent and sufficient meat, drink, washing lodging, apparel, and all other things ne- ſsary for the said Apprentice to have, and that he will well and truly pay to the said Susan — at the end of —her— term of apprenticeship aforesaid, the sum of Twenty — dollars, lawful money of Virginia; and that during the term aforesaid —he— will instruct, or cause to be instructed, the said Susan, in reading, writing and arithmetic, as far as the Rule of Three.
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194Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Half a Hundred Reasons Why the American People Should Favor Free Coinage [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: Mr. Eugene T. Brewster, in a recent communication addressed to the Brooklyn Citizen, cites the following reasons in favor of free coinage:
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195Author:  AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  "Muse" and "Lady" [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
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196Author:  Brown, Charles Brockden, related material: AnonymousRequires cookie*
 Title:  Quaker testimony against Charles Brockden Brown, 1805 February 20  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: At a monthly meeting of friends of Philadelphia for the Southern District held the 20th of 2mo. 1805.— The following Testimony against the conduct of Charles Brockden Brown was united with and a committee appointed to deliver him a copy out—
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197Author:  Armitt, ElizabethRequires cookie*
 Title:  Will of Elizabeth Armitt [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: I Elizabeth Armitt of the City of Philadelphia Widow being through Divine Favour in good health and of Sound Disposing mind and memory Do make this my Last Will and testament in maner following Item I give & bequath to my great grand Daughter Elizabeth Waln Wiſter my Silver tankerd marked EL Item I give and bequeath my part of the meſsuage and Lot where I now Dwell with the appurtenances and also all my household furniture and Plate except what is before given. unto my grandson Charles Brockden Brown his heirs and aſsines in trust, as to the furniture and Plate to and for the separate Use of my Daughter Mary Brown Item and as to the meſsuage and Lot in truſt to and for the Separate Use of the said Mary Brown Item I give and bequeath to my Said Daughter Mary Brown all my waring Apparel. Item I hearby Authorise and Impower my Exceutors on the Surviver of them to Sell and convey my Ground rent of fourteen Pounds per year payable by Thomas Wright and my Meſsuage and Lot situate on the weſt Side of Second Street bounded Northward by ground Late of Conrad Pidgen and Southward by ground Late of Joshua Fiſher and require them to pay the Intereſt on the Sum for which it is Sold to my Grand Son Charles Brockden Brown in trust to and for the separate use of my Daughter Mary Brown, and after her decease to Divide the Said Sum the one half betwen the Children of my Said Daughter Share and Share alike and the other half betwen the Children of my Late Daughter Elizabeth Waln Share and Share alike. Item in case my Excutors Shall not Sell my Said Ground rent and meſsuage and Lot of Grownd I give and Devise the Same to my Grand Son x Charles Brockden Brown to and for the Separate use of My Said Daughter Mary Brown During her Life. I will that after her Death the one half of my Said Eſtate be Divided between the Children of My Said Daughter Mary Brown or the Surviors Share and Share alike and the other half of my Said Estate be Divied betwen the Children of My Late Daughter Elizabeth Waln or the Surviors Share and Share alike. Laſtly I nominate and appoint my Son in Law Richard Waln and my Said Grand Son Charles Brockden Brown Exceutors of this my Last Will and tastatment hearby revoking all Wills by me heartofore Maide and it is My Earneſt Decire and requeſt that My Children and Grand Children Live in Love as becomes the followers of Chriſt
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198Author:  Brooke, B. S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to John T. Blake, November 1859 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: I am happy to inform you of my safe arrival in this place, found all well and glad to see me. I have nothing of importance to communicate the times seem hard, money scarce, but not quite so bad as in Greenbrier for here you can get plenty to eat for the money—and at rather reasonable prices. I see by the paper this morning that Cook has been convicted — Stevens has been handed over to the U.S authority and will doubtless be tried in Staunton. There is considable excitement ment here in reference to this insurrection. Many persons are selling, and sending their negros to the South. My kindest raguards to your Mother & Sister I have no news to give you. I read none I thought I would write you a line to let you know of my safe arrival — Love to — all
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199Author:  Brown, Charles BrockdenRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to John Hall, Philadelphia, November 21, 1806 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: I should deserve to be entirely discarded from your good opinion if I did not take an early opportunity of replying to your last kind letter just received. I sincerely hope you will not allow a negligence which is constitutional & impartial which has lately found some excuse in the pressure of a good deal of business, to exclude me from your friendship. I will not promise to do better for the future, because the strongest resolutions are sometimes unavail=ing, & promises unexecuted are only covert insults.
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200Author:  Brown, Charles BrockdenRequires cookie*
 Title:  Fragment of a Journal, AMS, dated 1801 March 9-10 [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1996 
 Description: real thee to death. Philad.a 3 mo. 9. 1801 1700 Guineas. 19 – 13. x. 1 lb. wt. of gold x. — — 21..11..3. or 24.7..6 $54..83. wt. 66.33. Annually Extr. — 500 — 6,500 Guin. Mr. Poulson.
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