Preliminaries
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University of Virginia, 1819
Clifton Waller Barrett
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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett
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E Littlefield
From W D Ticknor
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Title Page
THE AMBER GODS
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
HARRIET ELIZABETH PRESCOTT
BOSTON
TICKNOR AND FIELDS
1863
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press:
Welch, Bigelow, and Company,
Cambridge.
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Preface
“Black spirits and white,
Blue spirits and gray;
Mingle, mingle, mingle,
You that mingle may.”
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Dedication
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R. S. S.
I CONSECRATE
TO YOU
IN WHOM MY FUTURE LIES
THESE MEMORIALS
OF A PAST THAT YOU HAVE SO ENDEARED.
H. E. P.
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Contents.
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The Amber Gods 1
In a Cellar 67
Knitting Sale-Socks 119
Circumstance 153
Desert Sands 173
Midsummer and May 217
The South Breaker 367
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Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 [1863], The amber gods, and other stories (Ticknor and Fields, Boston) [word count] [eaf690T].
