This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...upon the courtesy extended to him. If the cabinet ladies felt their duties irksome, they were too well bred or too diplomatic to betray their feelings. Chief Justice Chase, in his then considered palatial home on the corner of Fifth and F Streets, gave royal dinners and parties. His daughters, Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...upon the courtesy extended to him. If the cabinet ladies felt their duties irksome, they were too well bred or too diplomatic to betray their feelings. Chief Justice Chase, in his then considered palatial home on the corner of Fifth and F Streets, gave royal dinners and parties. His daughters, Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague and Miss Nettie Chase, both fascinating and brilliant women, presided over the home of the chief justice, and made it one of the most attractive in the city. Here eminent statesmen and learned men and women of the time were dined and entertained with lavish hospitality. Justices Miller, Strong, and Swayne, and their attractive families gave many social functions in their spacious homes, where one met persons who were interesting and celebrated on account of their achievements. It may be imaginary, but when one recalls the resplendent social affairs given by Sir Edward and Lady Thornton, the French minister, the German minister Baron Gerolt, Mr. De Bille, the Danish minister, Mr. Zamacona, the Mexican minister, the Garcias, of Peru, and others of the Diplomatic Corps, one feels that diplomatic hospitality was more brilliant and frequent than it is in these days of boundless prosperity and greater cordiality between all nations and the United States. Many of the senators and members of Congress were men of wealth for that epoch, who entertained lavishly in their own homes. It was rare that their dinners were cooked by caterers. They lived well every day, and a dinner was to them merely a question of what guests they desired to invite. Mr. Sumner's dinners, as I have already said, were famous. The most delicious viands lost their flavor when compared with the intellectual feast that all enjoyed who sat at his board. Mr. Hooper, his most intimate f...
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Add this copy of Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife to cart. $57.50, very good condition, Sold by K. L. Givens Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bella Vista, AR, UNITED STATES, published 1913 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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VG. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardback book bound in blue cloth-covered boards with bright gilt titles. The book has modest wear at spine and corners with former owner's book plate on first end page. Frontis is a portrait of the author with tissue guard in place. The wife of famous General John A. Logan tells the story of their life from the General's Union regiment on the borderland land and then in the frontier of the West. Their Life began in Illinois where Logan was a Colonel in the Thirty-First Illinois Regiment and follows their life during the Civil War and beyond. Illustrated with black and photos. 470 pages including the Index.
Add this copy of Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife to cart. $70.00, very good condition, Sold by Elders Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nashville, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
