"There has been an other one of our most worthy citizens, been called by death, Maj Samuel Taylor. He departed this life on the 16th of this month. He was 60 years of age. I persume you recollect him, ...

Charles Gordon Newman's origins are mysterious. We know that he was born in Richmond, Va., in 1840. The names of his parents can't be found. Searches of the federal census of 1840, 1850, and 1860 have ...

Somewhere, Marcel Proust says that steamships insult the dignity of distance. I only know the line secondhand from Alexander McCall Smith--one can't really go flipping through "In Search of Lost Time" ...

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