Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . l.^iipli l>y Aiiliurn Post Card Mffj. Auburn, COUUT HOUSE, NEW CASTLE. AX OLD GEORGL\X MAXSIOX AT NEW CASTLE DOVER AND NEWCASTLE the town, and considerable country seats roundabout. With a President presiding, Legislatureassembled, and the Kent County Court holdingsessions, Dover of the Revolutionary War, wasa little capital of some justifiable volume of translations from Horace, andparaphrases of some Horatian odes, togetherwith original verses of a gallant characte
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . l.^iipli l>y Aiiliurn Post Card Mffj. Auburn, COUUT HOUSE, NEW CASTLE. AX OLD GEORGL\X MAXSIOX AT NEW CASTLE DOVER AND NEWCASTLE the town, and considerable country seats roundabout. With a President presiding, Legislatureassembled, and the Kent County Court holdingsessions, Dover of the Revolutionary War, wasa little capital of some justifiable volume of translations from Horace, andparaphrases of some Horatian odes, togetherwith original verses of a gallant character, anda play dedicated to George Washington, itshero, all the work of one or more patriot armyofficers, celebrates the wit and beauty of MissVining and other ladies at Dover. The capitalenjoyed its double distinction, and social lifetook on a touch of splendor. Miss Viningsrepute of beauty reached even the FrenchCourt at Versailles, and Thomas Jeffersonassured Marie Antoinette, whose curiosity wasexcited, that the Delaware girl was all that herFrench admirers reported. Perhaps it was this early social quality ofDover that has given to local society there, asat many another state
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