The hunters brought in 8 fallow Deer & 5 Common Deer to day, Great numbers of Buffalow in the Praries, also a light Coloured woolf Covered with hair & corse fur, also a Small wolf with a large bushey tail—Some Goats of a Different Kind Seen to day,—Great many Plumbs, rabits, Porcupines & barking Squrels, Capt Lewis Killed a rattle Snake in a village of the Squirel's and Saw a Hair to day. — from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
small circulating library keeper
In this manner they walked on, very amicably, until they arrived at Miss Knag’s brother’s, who was an ornamental stationer and small circulating library keeper, in a by-street off Tottenham Court Road; and who let out by the day, week, month, or year, the newest old novels, whereof the titles were displayed in pen-and-ink characters on a sheet of pasteboard, swinging at his door-post. — from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Sir Charles Lyndon Knight
My affairs, meanwhile, at the play-table went on not unprosperously, and I was just on the point of marrying the widow Cornu (we were at Brussels by this time, and the poor soul was madly in love with me,) when the London Gazette was put into my hands, and I read the following announcement:— ‘Died at Castle-Lyndon, in the kingdom of Ireland, the Right Honourable Sir Charles Lyndon, Knight of the Bath, member of Parliament for Lyndon in Devonshire, and many years His Majesty’s representative at various European Courts. — from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
[1906] In the plan of both the Larger and Smaller Catechism Luther keeps to the traditional threefold division, viz. — from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar
Son Clara Louise Kellogg
From a photograph by Gurney & Son Clara Louise Kellogg as Lucia 72 From a photograph by Elliott & Fry Clara Louise Kellogg as Martha 74 From a photograph by Turner Clara Louise Kellogg as Marguerite, 1865 82 From a photograph by Sarony Clara Louise Kellogg as Marguerite, 1864 88 From a silhouette by Ida Waugh Gottschalk 106 From a photograph by Case & Getchell Jane Elizabeth Crosby 108 Mother of Clara Louise Kellogg From a tintype General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1877 116 From a photograph by Mora Henry G. Stebbins 122 From a photograph by Grillet & Co. Adelina Patti 130 From a photograph by Fredericks Clara Louise Kellogg as Linda, 1868 134 From a photograph by Stereoscopic Co. — from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
Coda 370 Index 373 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Clara Louise Kellogg Strakosch Frontispiece Lydia Atwood 2 Maternal Grandmother of Clara Louise Kellogg Charles Atwood 4 Maternal Grandfather of Clara Louise Kellogg From a Daguerreotype George Kellogg 10 Father of Clara Louise Kellogg From a photograph by Gurney & Son Clara Louise Kellogg, Aged Three 12 From a photograph by Black & Case Clara Louise Kellogg, Aged Seven 14 From a photograph by Black & Case Clara Louise Kellogg as a Girl 20 From a photograph by Sarony Clara Louise Kellogg as a Young Lady 28 From a photograph by Black & Case Brignoli, 1865 42 From a photograph by C. Silvy James Russell Lowell, in 1861 46 From a photograph by Brady Charlotte Cushman, 1861 52 From a photograph by Silabee, Case & Co. Clara Louise Kellogg as Figlia 56 From a photograph by Black & Case General Horace Porter 58 From a photograph by Pach Bros. — from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
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