Romantic days in the early republic . WW MRS. EDWARD BLAKE. From the miniature by Malbone in the possession of Miss Julia Robins, Boston. IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC 417 by shade-lamps and lights in alabaster vases,to produce the effect of moonlight. These apart-ments terminated in a boudoir only large enoughto hold two or three people. It was hung withlight blue silk and furnished with sofas and cur-tains of the same hue. It also contained an im-mense mirror, placed so as to reflect the restof the rooms. This was th-e Boston eleganceof 1825. ^ And then there follows a glowingdescription of the char
Romantic days in the early republic . WW MRS. EDWARD BLAKE. From the miniature by Malbone in the possession of Miss Julia Robins, Boston. IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC 417 by shade-lamps and lights in alabaster vases,to produce the effect of moonlight. These apart-ments terminated in a boudoir only large enoughto hold two or three people. It was hung withlight blue silk and furnished with sofas and cur-tains of the same hue. It also contained an im-mense mirror, placed so as to reflect the restof the rooms. This was th-e Boston eleganceof 1825. ^ And then there follows a glowingdescription of the charms of Miss Emily Mar-shall, who, Quincy ^ declares, as completelyfilled the ideal of the lovely and the feminine 1 In the Boston Directory for 1825, a very cosy little volume, theaddresses of some of the people mentioned by Mr. Quincy are givenas follows: Josiah Marshall, house 24 Franklin Place; R. C. Derby,27 Chestnut street; Daniel Webster, 10 Summer street. was the widow of Edward Blake, Jr., and though she enter-tained
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