A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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Page 107
... Mary be- cause she was thoroughly human . She knew how to gather friends , how to hold them , how to repay ... Mary's time . Her portraits , however , afford visual proof of her attractiveness ; besides , her contemporaries always spoke ...
... Mary be- cause she was thoroughly human . She knew how to gather friends , how to hold them , how to repay ... Mary's time . Her portraits , however , afford visual proof of her attractiveness ; besides , her contemporaries always spoke ...
Page 108
... Mary's husband and titular King of Scotland , met his death . On the road to Craigmillar Castle whither Mary was taking her husband following his illness , they stopped off at a small royal manor , Kirk o ' Field . In Mary's absence ...
... Mary's husband and titular King of Scotland , met his death . On the road to Craigmillar Castle whither Mary was taking her husband following his illness , they stopped off at a small royal manor , Kirk o ' Field . In Mary's absence ...
Page 112
... MARY , QUEEN OF SCOTS , A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HAVING HER BE- HEADED HE jealousy between Elizabeth and Mary has been greatly over- Tromanticized . Perhaps Elizabeth envied Mary's success with men ; she was a woman , too . What really ...
... MARY , QUEEN OF SCOTS , A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HAVING HER BE- HEADED HE jealousy between Elizabeth and Mary has been greatly over- Tromanticized . Perhaps Elizabeth envied Mary's success with men ; she was a woman , too . What really ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
CAESAR WARNS CICERO TO STAND ALOOF FROM CIVIL STRIFE | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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