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A letter from William C. Preston to Miss. Silsbee. Reference to a satire by Alexander Pope. February, 1835.
Transcription
Senate Chamber Dear Miss Silsbee It is so agreeable to me to obey a command from you; & so flattering to put my name where it will occasionally recall me to your memory that I venture to record it hence even at the hazard of suggesting to the reader of your Album these lines of Pope Pretty in amber to behold the forms of straws or sticks or flies or grubs or worm the things we know are neither rich nor rare but wonder how the devil they got there Wm. C. Preston Feby 1835
Creation Date
2-1-1835
City
Washington (D.C.)
Country
United States
Creator Life Dates
1794-1860
Keywords
Silsbee, William C. Preston, Alexander Pope, Febuary 1835, 1835
Resource Identifier
110404-24
Date Digital
April 2014
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
United States History
Publisher
Wofford College
Format (IMT)
Language
en-us
Digitization Specifications
800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
Preston, William C. Senator, "Letter from William C. Preston to Miss Silsbee, 1835." (1835). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 215.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/215
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