Experiencing Mount Vernon : eyewitness accounts, 1784-1865 /
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| Imprint: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006. |
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| Description: | xvii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6094875 |
Table of Contents:
- "A private citizen on the banks of the Potomac" / George Washington
- "Two of the richest days of my life" / Elkanah Watson
- "The first man in the world" / Robert Hunter
- Laboring hands / George Washington
- A model for the nation / Samuel Powel
- Dinner and talk of the new Constitution / Olney Winsor
- "Washington has something uncommonly majestic and commanding in his walk, his address, his figure and his countenance" / Benjamin Henry Latrobe
- "They hoped they would no longer be slaves in ten years" / Louis-Philippe
- Acute observations : from domestic pursuits to concern for the nation / Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
- "Tranquil happiness reigns" / Elizabeth Ambler Carrington
- Dinner with the widow Washington / Samuel Latham Mitchill
- Mount Vernon during Martha Washington's last days / Thomas Pim Cope
- "Ingratitude is upon us" : a letter to a friend in Richmond
- Sold : fifty-four Negroes / Bushrod Washington
- Public property? / Charles H. Ruggles
- No eating, drinking, and dancing parties allowed / Bushrod Washington
- The Fourth of July : from the National Intelligencer
- Lafayette's return / Auguste Levasseur
- Shock and consolation / Thomas Hayes
- Improprieties and threats : from the Microcosm
- "These grounds should be the property of the nation" / A. Veteran Officer
- Overwhelmed by the nation's history : from the Family Magazine
- A death in the family : the account of an anonymous physician
- "A glorious remembrance" / Caroline Moore
- Going to ruin / Benjamin Brown French
- Mecca of the mind : from the New-England Magazine
- "I was never more disappointed in my life" / L. Osgood
- An inheritance shared with the nation / Jane Charlotte Washington
- "Marked and scratched all over" / Robert W. Nelson
- A rare opportunity : M****
- The new proprietor / John Augustine Washington
- "Without thinking that we trespassed" / Caroline Wells Healey
- "A voice now calls, which should touch a responsive chord in every heart" : from the Democratic Union
- Preserve this "landmark on the highway of human freedom" / Samuel I. Prime
- An appeal to the North and the South : Mrs. C****
- "The most delightful day of our lives" : "rambler"
- Yielding to the desires of the public : from the New-York Daily Tribune
- A staff for the Holy Land / Orlando B. Willcox
- A visit from Kossuth : W. T. C.
- Enter the ladies / Louisa Cunningham
- A progress report / Anonymous
- "Holy ground, sacred pleasure" / Augusta Blanche Berard
- Homage and anguish : a letter written on board the U.S.-Pawnee
- Soldiers and shawls / Sarah Tracy
- Whither Washington? : from the New York Times
- "We are overrun with soldiers" / Mollie
- "Vandals looking for relics" / Robert Knox Sneden
- "We believe the place where we are standing to be holy" / George W. Clymans
- App. The Washingtons of Mount Vernon.
