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Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 [1859], The adopted daughter and other tales. (J.B. Smith and Company, Philadelphia) [word count] [eaf487T].

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Front matter Covers, Edges and Spine

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Preliminaries

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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett [figure description] 487EAF. Paste-Down Endpaper with Bookplate: heraldry figure with a green tree on top and shield below. There is a small gray shield hanging from the branches of the tree, with three blue figures on that small shield. The tree stands on a base of gray and black intertwined bars, referred to as a wreath in heraldic terms. Below the tree is a larger shield, with a black background, and with three gray, diagonal stripes across it; these diagonal stripes are referred to as bends in heraldic terms. There are three gold leaves in line, end-to-end, down the middle of the center stripe (or bend), with green veins in the leaves. Note that the colors to which this description refers appear in some renderings of this bookplate; however, some renderings may appear instead in black, white and gray tones.[end figure description]

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Emma Forbes
Emma Forbes
Emma Forbes
now
Mrs. Emma Foster.

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Title Page THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER. BY
ALICE CAREY.
AND
OTHER TALES PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY J. B. SMITH & CO.
NO. 610 CHESTNUT STREET.
1859. Preliminaries

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CONTENTS.

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The Adopted Daughter. By Alice Carey 9

Three Scenes in the South. By C. B. Parsons 87

Mary Neilly. By Mrs. Jennie Dowling De Witt 105

The Last of Torconnier's Band. By Mrs. C. W. Denison 112

The Spoiler. By John Wesley Whitehead 131

A Country Recollection; or, The Reformed Inebriate. By Mrs. E. F. Ellet 133

The Way-side Spring. By T. B. Read 144

The Dying Husband. By Will. Willowell 146

A Water-Song. By Geo. F. Cheever 150

Out of the Tavern 151

Agatha to Harold. A Ballad. By Alice Carey 152

Twilight. By E. J. Eames 159

Little Peleg; the Drunkard's Son. By Wm. T. Coggshall 160

The Heart's Litany. By F. H. Stauffer 179

Comfort. By Mrs. C. M. Kirkland 180

The Pen and the Press 197

Lovely Woman 198

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The Consecration. By Phœbe Carey 199

The Sculptor of Florence and the Mysterious Stranger 200

“Love and cherish one another!” 208

Rose May, the new School Mistress. By F. H. Stauffer 209

The dead Youth of the Isthmus. By Rev C. W. Denison 222

Cast out the Wine. By Alice Carey 225

A Tale. From the French of S. H. Berthond 227

Nanny 235

My early Friend. By Francis S. Woodworth 236

The Shadow-death. By Virginia A. Swoope 246

Love's Assurance. By Mrs. C. Maria Landon 247

The Auction, or the Wedding Coat 248

The Neglected. By Phœbe Carey 262

Wine Occasionally. By Mrs. E. J. Eames 264

Unequal Yoking. By Leroy M. Lee, M. D. 273

The Angel Child. By Mrs. L. G. Abell 283

A Sister's Love 285

The Devoted. By Phœbe Carey 286

The Basket Maker 287

Out-spoken Love. By Mary 292

Lights and Shadows. By Angela 293

Idella Pemberton. By Rev. Philip P. Neely 307

An Autumn Song. By Mrs. C. Maria Landon 313

The Love of Zephyr and the Violet. By J. Wesley Whitfield 315

Pretty, laughing Eoline. By F. H. Stauffer 317

Female Pioneers of the West. By Mrs. E. F. Ellet 318

My Work. By Phœbe Carey 325

Words 326

One Leaf of Life. By Mrs. L. G. Abell 327

The Two Clerks. By C. D. Colesworthy 329

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Winter 338

Lament of the Forsaken. By Mrs. C. Maria Landon 340

A Tale of the Destroyer. By J. W. Field 342

The Spirit of the Vine. By J. Wesley Whitfield 348

Niagara 350

A True Story. By Rev. J. T. Crane 351

Earth's Heavenly Visitor. By Mary Middleton 358

The Voice and Pen. By D. F. M'Carthy 360

Watching. By Phœbe Carey 361

The History of a Neighborhood. By Neal Dow 362

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Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 [1859], The adopted daughter and other tales. (J.B. Smith and Company, Philadelphia) [word count] [eaf487T].