Word: reconstruction
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...energy displayed in carrying out so difficult an undertaking. The report in a New York paper that Mr. Sherwood was the author of "Fair Rosamond" is not so far wrong after all, for he has rewritten it almost entirely, and those of us who have ever attempted to reconstruct a single scene can, in a measure, estimate his labor. He has, however, as a recompense for his trouble the common assent that the dialogue in "Fair Rosamond" is uncommonly clever. It was very gratifying to receive the cordial support of the Columbia papers, and all of us who are interested...