A Belle of the Fifties / Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling

by Virginia Clay-Clopton

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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PREFACE