Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane," Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper. Scrapbook also includes awards presented to Birkby by Iowa Press Women, Inc....
Excerpted from The Irving library, vol. 7, no. 949. Includes debate with Stephen Douglas (June 17, 1858), speech at Independence Hall (Feb. 21, 1861), First Inaugural Address (Mar. 4, 1861), Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863), Gettysburg...
Concerning his version of some lines from Martial; misses her as a companion on his walks; his daily routine; blames Mrs. Hunt's constant toiling outdoors on her mother; promises that Elizabeth will be amused by his translation of Gresset's...
Concerning his criticism of two pamphlets by Manzzini which contain appeals for interposition to relieve the Italian people from tyranny and despotism; dislikes Mazzini's manner as well as the matter of his appeal.
Fifteen leaves mounted and bound of an extensively revised manuscript, portions of which appear in modified form in the chapter on Shelley in Lord Byron and his Contemporaries (1828). Leaves two and twenty-one are second drafts; the paper is...