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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.) 8 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 68 (search)
bels had taken themselves away only. They took every thing they could carry off in the time they had. Many houses had absolutely nothing in them of value to any body. St. Simon's Island is flat, but wonderfully productive and beautiful. It has never been my fortune before to see its equal. Our camp is close on to the old town of Frederica, which in its palmy days had some three thousand inhabitants. Now it has not one. The north end of the island forms Pierce Butler's plantation — Fanny Kemble's husband, and the man who had that immense auction sale of negroes several years ago. It is deserted now, save by some dozen or two darkies, once Butler's slaves. Ole massa run away, de darkies stay at home. Truly the Kingdom is coming to these poor blacks. The weather here is warm, and uniformly so. We have had nothing here yet hotter than our July's best at home. Thus far I have experienced no great inconvenience from the heat, and am in good health and good spirits day in and da
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 3: the sea Islands. (search)
e fresher and more invigorating sweetness from marsh and sea. One could almost see and hear the growth of plant and cane, as the life-giving sun warmed the sap, burst the blossom, and drew the tendril skyward. Gigantic ferns covered the shadier places, while the pools and swamps were beautiful with lilies. There were a number of deserted plantations on the island, the most notable of which were those of T. Butler King, James E. Couper, and Pierce Butler. The latter was the husband of Fanny Kemble, and his place the one of which she wrote in her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, in 1838-39. All these places were neglected and abandoned, except by a few old negroes. Historically, St. Simon's Island was noted ground. Near the camp of the Fifty-fourth were the tabby walls of Frederica, founded by Governor Oglethorpe in 1736, of which John Wesley was the minister. In the centre of the island was Bloody Swamp, where the invading Spaniards were defeated July 7, 1742.
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Index. (search)
ones, Samuel, letter to Braxton Bragg, 195. Jones, sutler, 177. Joy, Charles F., 276, 291, 316, 317. Joy Street Church, 12. Junction with Western Army, 266. K. K Company, 20, 38, 54, 55, 73, 75, 91, 118, 140, 145, 148, 150, 155, 164, 168, 184, 188, 198, 202, 204, 206, 215, 221, 222, 223, 231, 232, 234, 237, 245, 246, 263, 286, 291, 297, 304, 309, 310, 311, 312, 315, 316, 317. Kansas Troops. Infantry: First (Colored), 2. Keitt, L. M., 122, 123. Kelly, Rev. Mr., 10. Kemble, Fanny, 45. King, Private, 147. King, Robert, 243. King, T. Butler, 45. King's Creek, S. C., 208. Kingsbury, C. P., 317. Kingstree, S. C., 291. Kingstree Bridge, 292. Kingsville, S. C., 289. Kingsley, E. W., 16. Knight, A. A., 175. Knowles, Alfred H., 145, 176, 183, 202, 237, 260, 288. Kurtz, John, 31, 319. L. L Company, 149. Labor besieging Wagner, 125. Ladies' Committee, 15, 23. Lake City, Fla., 154,155,157. Lamar, Battery, 54, 200, 201, 203. Lamar, G. B., 4
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 15: the third trip to Europe, 1859. (search)
to know how they strike you. It is to publish this work complete that I intend to visit England this summer. The story thus referred to was The minister's Wooing, and Lady Byron's answer to the above, which is appended, leaves no room for doubt as to her appreciation of it. She writes:-- London, May 31, 1859. Dear friend,-- I have found, particularly as to yourself, that if I did not answer from the first impulse, all had evaporated. Your letter came by the Niagara, which brought Fanny Kemble, to learn the loss of her best friend, that Miss Fitzhugh whom you saw at my house. I have an intense interest in your new novel. More power in these few numbers than in any of your former writings, relatively, at least to my own mind. More power than in Adam Bede, which is the book of the season, and well deserves a high place. Whether Mrs. Scudder will rival Mrs. Poyser, we shall see. It would amuse you to hear my granddaughter and myself attempting to foresee the future of the
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.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
ic curiosity, to the impulses of the literary artist or to the religious aims of the missionary. George Rogers Clark, Logan, and Boone were pioneers. Fearon, Darby, and Faux came to study conditions for emigrants. Bernard, Tyrone Power, and Fanny Kemble were actors. Wilson, Nuttall, and Audubon were professed ornithologists; the Bartrams and Michaux, botanists. Schoolcraft was an ethnologist, Chevalier a student of political economy, Fanny Wright a social reformer. Grund, Combe the phrenoege: Inexhaustible stores for the study of natural history will always be at hand, and for all other sciences the scholar will be secluded in a romantic retirement which will give additional zest to his researches. The attention of others, as Fanny Kemble and Harriet Martineau, is drawn to the negro and his master in the South, more than ever, perhaps, after the anti-slavery agitation in England. But the interest in slavery, in frontier life, and indeed in all the main topics of the later tr
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.), Chapter 3: early essayists (search)
Manhattan could claim little attention from young men of wit and spirit, but leisure and a society both cosmopolitan and congenial afforded them ample opportunity and provocation for literary jeux d'esprit. When the busy savant, Samuel Latham Mitchill, presided at the Sour Krout crowned with cabbage leaves or burlesqued his own erudition in jovial speeches at the Turtle Club, what wonder if Irving and the lads of Kilkenny found time to riot at Dyde's on imperial champagne or to sally out to Kemble's mansion on the Passaic — the original of Cockloft Hall — for a night of high fun and jollification. Dr. Mitchill's Picture of New York, with a wealth of geological and antiquarian lore travestied in the first part of the Knickerbocker History, records the numerous landmarks and traditions of the city. Corlaer's Hook was then something more than a memory, Hell Gate was still a menace to navigation, the Collect was not all filled up, and the tolls levied at Kissing Bridge formed a standin
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.), Index. (search)
Journals (Emerson), 351, 355, 357 Judah, S. B., 231 Judd, Sylvester, 324 Julia, or the Wanderer, 220 Julian, 324 Juliet Grenville, 284 Julius Caesar, 225 Junto Club, 95, 105, 122, 161 K Kalm, Pehr, 186 Kaloolah, 320 Kames, Lord, 91, 97 Kant, 332, 334, 357 Katherine Walton, 315 Kean, Charles, 224, 240 Keats, John, 260, 262, 264, 265 Keene, Laura, 232 Keimer, Samuel, 94, 95, 115, 161 Keith, George, 9 Keith, Sir, William, 94 Kelly, Miss, 221 Kemble, Fanny, 189, 191 Kennedy, John Pendleton, 231, 240, 307, 308, 311-312 Kent, James, 288 Kerr, John, 221, 231 Key into the languages of America, 4 Kinsmen, the, 315 Kirkland, Mrs. C. M. S., 318 Knapp, Francis, 159 Knapp, S. H., 233 Knickerbocker History, 237 Knickerbocker magazine, the, 241, 312 n., 322 n. Knight, Sarah, 10, 13 Knight of the golden Fleece, the, 228 Knights of the Hlorse-Shoe, the, 312 Koningsmarke, 311 Kotzebue, 219, 231 Kropf, Lewis L., 18 n.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
morning--Well, it must have been your grandma. This she regarded as a compromise which she could admit, and I left her leaning on that. But she consented to refer the matter to some mysterious aunt of her husband's, who has ere now settled the matter and explained the difference between Storer and Storrow. In other respects the Widow Cushing was a lively elderly lady with an intelligent come-outer nephew. A letter dated February, 1850, describes the impression made on the writer by Mrs. Kemble: I had never even seen her before, and the tones of that unequalled voice .. . and the myriad expressions of that unequalled face — perhaps I should rather say those myriad voices and faces condensed into one were all new to me. . . . The play was the Midsummer night's dream. . . . How shall I describe the immense animal spirits, the utter transformation of voice, face, and gesture, with which this extraordinary woman threw herself into the comedy. .... Here, Peter Quince, fro
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
as studied for several years in Dusseldorf and learned how to make everything picturesque except herself. February, 1854 We have just been reading a nice letter from Barbara [Mrs. Higginson's sister]. ... She is having a superb time with St. Peter, Martin Van Buren, Mrs. Browning, and other Roman notabilities. She and Sully walk on the Campagna as if it were the Cambridge Common; little Lizzy plays with young Brownings and Crawfords; and Bab [Barbara] lends my Woman and her wishes to Fanny Kemble and Harriet Hosmer. May 11, 1854 Mary groans in spirit over Bab's dashing and vehement mode of life. She herself, like Lowell's charming picture of President Kirkland, belongs to a past age of quiet and finds no home here; she would enjoy the repose of the native Romans, who deal with time as if they were as old as their city and had as many years to look forward to. But the rapidity with which Yankees live at Rome makes her shudder, while it is B.'s element. I know how Barbara do
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter army life and camp drill (search)
fed on honey; alligator steaks are a kind of racier fried halibut; but I see that 'possum is one of the great compensations of Nature, given to elevate and idealize the lives of these unsophisticated Africans. What does abolitionism, what did Mrs. Kemble know of 'possum? They feel, these poor people, what it is to them, and speak of it with a kind of unctuous reverence. Doubting whether to send a savory morsel of it to Dr. Rogers, in town, we consulted Uncle York, the veteran, his personal ais just swinging in the hammock on the piazza and talking with a squad of women whom he brought from St. Simon's Island, and who stand in their clean Sunday array, erect and stately as Nubians, recalling past days. He is asking them how about Mrs. Kemble, whose neighbors they were, and they are putting together their scraps of reminiscence about her which amount to only two, though they lived on the next plantation; and one of these two at least would make a sensation among polite readers, per
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