Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66. Put Into Narrative Form By Ada SterlingTHE memoirs of "Mrs. Clay, of Alabama," by which title Mrs. Clement C. Clay, Jr. (now Mrs. Clay-Clopton), was known during the period comprised by 1850-87, begin in the middle of the second decade of the nineteenth century, the scenes being laid among the affluent plantations of North Carolina and Alabama, and, continuing through two brilliant administrations at the national capital, close, as she emerges from the distresses which overtook her and her husband after the never-to-be-forgotten tragedy that plunged a nation into mourning - the death of Mr. Lincoln. |
Contents
Section 1 | 12 |
Section 2 | 57 |
Section 3 | 68 |
Section 4 | 81 |
Section 5 | 95 |
Section 6 | 103 |
Section 7 | 126 |
Section 8 | 136 |
Section 17 | 234 |
Section 18 | 237 |
Section 19 | 255 |
Section 20 | 266 |
Section 21 | 278 |
Section 22 | 288 |
Section 23 | 297 |
Section 24 | 305 |
Section 9 | 149 |
Section 10 | 166 |
Section 11 | 179 |
Section 12 | 189 |
Section 13 | 201 |
Section 14 | 205 |
Section 15 | 215 |
Section 16 | 223 |
Section 25 | 321 |
Section 26 | 328 |
Section 27 | 339 |
Section 28 | 354 |
Section 29 | 369 |
Section 30 | 378 |
Section 31 | 392 |
Common terms and phrases
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