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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

Doubleday, Page & Company

Published, September, 1904

THE DEAR MEMORY OF THE HUSBAND OF MY YOUTH

Clement Claiborne Clay

Virginia Clay-Clopton

A Belle of the FiftiesMemoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853–66 Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling