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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poetical columns of a country newspaper, and I shall not soon forget how I laughed in my sleeve, when my aunt, a dear sympathetic creature, read it to me, with tears in her eyes. "The author of that," said she, "must have been in deep affliction." I did not destroy the illusion for her by disclosing my hand in the affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFESSIONS OF A POET. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »

...been suggested that the four rooms in the top of Weld, which are situated in the part which has the large W, could be made much more pleasant if a window were put through in the place of the W. It would not destroy the beauty of the front; and the W might be put a little higher up. These rooms have very little light as they are now, as there are only two windows, one north, and the other south...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOOR'S SERENADE. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

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