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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 539 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 88 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 58 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 54 0 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 54 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 44 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 39 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 38 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 38 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 36 0 Browse Search
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Americans at a French Court Ball. --At a Court Ball, given at the Palace of the Tuileries on Wednesday evening last, thirty Americans were presented to the Emperor and Empress by the Minister of the United States. Among them were Mr. Terrell and Miss Cornwall, of Virginia.
tes. His opinion was asked at the time of the marriage, and he said, without any hesitation. "That such a marriage might satisfy individual conscience and the reputation of the bride; but that its legal validity was doubtful, since the husband was a foreigner, not even domiciled, a minor who had not the consent of his family, and did not appear to have conformed to any one of the regulations required by French law to validate a marriage. The opinion of my father and that of several other Americans was, that if the marriage was not legal in France, neither Miss Paterson nor her children would have any legitimate rights. Moreover, it was notorious in the United States that Miss Paterson had knowingly run the risk of being only a morganatic wife, in the hope of sharing the high position to which she might aspire as the legitimate spouse of a Bonaparte.--This statement is so notorious in America that Miss Paterson has no sympathy as a young girl deceived and a legitimate wife repudiate