. A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 . Marse Robert, a year before his death. One of the saddest faces of history. From the collection of Frederick H. Meserve. Robert E. Lee, Second Lieutenant of Engineers, as he looked on his graduation from^West Point, July i, 1829. From a portrait painted at the time CONTENTS Chapter I. Childhood, Girlhood, Marriage. A Bit of Family History—Plantation Scenes in North Caro-lina and Alabama—A Caravan of the Early Thirties—DeYear de Stars Fell—I Partially Scalp My Cou
. A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 . Marse Robert, a year before his death. One of the saddest faces of history. From the collection of Frederick H. Meserve. Robert E. Lee, Second Lieutenant of Engineers, as he looked on his graduation from^West Point, July i, 1829. From a portrait painted at the time CONTENTS Chapter I. Childhood, Girlhood, Marriage. A Bit of Family History—Plantation Scenes in North Caro-lina and Alabama—A Caravan of the Early Thirties—DeYear de Stars Fell—I Partially Scalp My Cousin—TheStrange Experience of an Early Alabama Instructress—-MissBrooks, a Distinguished Educator—My Uncle Takes MyTraining in Hand—A First Flight into the Beautiful World—Charles Kean and Ellen Tree—I Meet a Famous Belle—Mme. Le Vert Instructs Me in the Dance—An IntenseLove Affair—My Knight Fails Me—A Gallant LoverAppears—Social Doings at a Primitive Capital—Poet-swains in the Early Forties—A Dance with Willam —My Premonitions Are Realised and My OwnComes to Me—Marriage in the Morn of Life—The Home-coming of the Bride ....... 3 Chapter II. Washington Personages in theFifties. Journey to the Capital
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