Author: Gideon Hiram HollisterPublisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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The History of Connecticut
Author: Gideon Hiram HollisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The History of Connecticut
Author: Gideon H. HollisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Lists and Indexes
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Mary Telfair to Mary Few
Author: Mary TelfairPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820342971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This volume gathers nearly half of some 300 letters written by Mary Telfair of Savannah to her best friend, Mary Few of New York. Telfair was born in 1790 to a wealthy, prominent, slaveholding Savannah family. Few, born in 1790 into equally affluent circumstances, moved with her family from Savannah to New York in 1799. Self-exiled because of their strong antislavery views, the Fews never returned to Georgia, yet they remained close to the Telfairs. The close friendship between Telfair and Few ended only with their deaths in the 1870s. Regular travelers, they met on many occasions. Chiefly, however, they kept in touch through frequent correspondence (Few's letters to Telfair remain undiscovered, and may not have not survived). Wherever Telfair happened to be--in Savannah, the northern states, or Europe--she wrote to her friend at least two or three times a month. Telfair's letters offer unique insights into the daily life of her family and the changes wrought by the deaths of so many of its members. The letters also reveal the shared interests and imperatives at the base of her various relationships with elite women, but especially with Mary Few, whom Telfair memorably described as her "Siamese Twin." The two women, neither of whom ever wed, nonetheless discussed the rights and obligations of marriage as well as their own state of "single blessedness." They also conversed about shared intellectual interests--literature, lecture topics, women's education--as well as the foibles of common acquaintances. Here is a fascinating, unfamiliar world as revealed in what editor Betty Wood calls "one of the most remarkable literary exchanges between women of high social rank in the early national and antebellum United States."
Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens
Author: Charles Theodore GrevePublisher:
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Category : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Connecticut in Transition, 1775-1818
Author: Richard Joseph PurcellPublisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
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The History of Nations
Author: Henry Cabot LodgePublisher:
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Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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List of the Contents of the Three Collections
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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