Item #51114 Olivia Letters: Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years. Emily Edson BRIGGS.

Olivia Letters: Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years

Item #51114

BRIGGS, Emily Edson. The Olivia Letters: Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. 1st ed. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth, T.E.G. A near fine copy. "The first letter is dated 1866 and the last in 1882. There are eighty-three letters in all, covering such historic events as Grant's inauguration, the impeachment trial of Andrew johnson and numerous gatherings of Sheridan. There is also material on blacks in Congress and on the movement for female suffrage. The sum of the book's contents is very useful for the local history of Washington and for the flavor of national events in the capital during the early post-war era." Krick 53.

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