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Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an
object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and
poets. "Literary Capital" offers a compelling portrait of the city
through the work of seventy authors ranging from early Americans
such as Abigail Adams and Washington Irving to contemporaries such
as Edward P. Jones and Joan Didion.
Arranged by both period and theme, this anthology begins with
the founding of Washington in 1800 and extends through the early
twenty-first century. In the introduction Christopher Sten explores
two broad categories of prose--historical writing focused on
politics and writing about the lives and times of the people of
D.C. with official Washington as the setting. Sten also defines a
core group of "Washington writers," native and naturalized authors
who focus much of their work on the city: Frederick Douglass, Henry
Adams, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, Gore Vidal, Ward Just, and
Susan Richards Shreve, among others.
Included are letters, essays, short stories, poems, and excerpts
from novels and historical writings by a broad selection of such
renowned American and international authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Charles Dickens, Alexis de Tocqueville, Louisa May Alcott, Walt
Whitman, Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy,
and Joseph Heller. The reader also incorporates many writings by
well-known African American authors, including Booker T.
Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Sterling A. Brown,
Langston Hughes, May Miller, Ralph Ellison, and Marita Golden.
Title: Forty years of Washington society: portrayed by the family
letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the
collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith.Author: Margaret Bayard
SmithPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00555700CollectionID:
CTRG10178684-BPublicationDate: 19060101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 1-2] i]-xii 1-2] 1-424 p.: ill.; 22 cm
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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being a Judge and witness, of incidents if existing, that might be
worthy of the use to be made of them. Your enquiries after my dear
Husband will be partially answered by himself. He is better in
health than he was two months ago, tho' still feeble and confined
to his rooms?we trust however that with great care against the cold
of this Winter, he will be able to take exercise in his Carriage
when the Spring season shall cheer us again. I have been afflicted
for the last two weeks with Influenza, the violence of which seems
slowly passing away, altho' the cough continues. I send you an
engraving from Stuart's portrait, which tho' indifferently
executed, is a better likeness than Mr. Wood's, which I would send
also, but that the stage has ceased to run to and from Orange C.
House for a few days, on account of bad roads. I hope the efforts
of our friend Mr. Clay, in his interesting report, to keep "sweet
peace" without a loss of honour, may prove successful A war between
the United States and France that would cost both so much, for a
cause apparently insignificant, would be a spectacle truly
deplorable, in the present state of the World. Ever affectionately
yours, D. P. MADISON. I am very thankful, my kind friend, for the
interest you take in my health. It is not good, and at my age,
nature can afford little of the medical aid she exerts on younger
patients. I have indeed got through the most painful stages of my
principal malady, a diffusive and obstinate Rheumatism, but I feel
its crippling effects on my limbs, particularly my hands and
fingers, as this little effort of the pen will shew. I owe my
thanks to1835] HENRY ORR, THE WAITER 359 Mr. Smith also, for the
friendly lines which accompanied your former letter to Mrs. M. and
the good wishes conveyed in your la...
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www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
being a Judge and witness, of incidents if existing, that might be
worthy of the use to be made of them. Your enquiries after my dear
Husband will be partially answered by himself. He is better in
health than he was two months ago, tho' still feeble and confined
to his rooms?we trust however that with great care against the cold
of this Winter, he will be able to take exercise in his Carriage
when the Spring season shall cheer us again. I have been afflicted
for the last two weeks with Influenza, the violence of which seems
slowly passing away, altho' the cough continues. I send you an
engraving from Stuart's portrait, which tho' indifferently
executed, is a better likeness than Mr. Wood's, which I would send
also, but that the stage has ceased to run to and from Orange C.
House for a few days, on account of bad roads. I hope the efforts
of our friend Mr. Clay, in his interesting report, to keep "sweet
peace" without a loss of honour, may prove successful A war between
the United States and France that would cost both so much, for a
cause apparently insignificant, would be a spectacle truly
deplorable, in the present state of the World. Ever affectionately
yours, D. P. MADISON. I am very thankful, my kind friend, for the
interest you take in my health. It is not good, and at my age,
nature can afford little of the medical aid she exerts on younger
patients. I have indeed got through the most painful stages of my
principal malady, a diffusive and obstinate Rheumatism, but I feel
its crippling effects on my limbs, particularly my hands and
fingers, as this little effort of the pen will shew. I owe my
thanks to1835] HENRY ORR, THE WAITER 359 Mr. Smith also, for the
friendly lines which accompanied your former letter to Mrs. M. and
the good wishes conveyed in your la...
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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