Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES
MRS. CLAY of Alabama
A Belle of the Fifties Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853–66 Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling
Illustrated from contemporary portraits
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1905
Copyright, 1904, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, September, 1904
To
THE DEAR MEMORY OF THE HUSBAND OF MY YOUTH
Clement Claiborne Clay
Virginia Clay-Clopton
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