Carolina QuotesThere is no more prospect of a Speaker now than there was at first; indeed, less, and our men have despaired of Christmas holidays at home.
Virginia Clay-Clopton Carolinian
Source
A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 (1905)
- work
- A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66
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- 1905
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