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CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH: Powhatan's Treatment of Smith ; The Pocahontas Incident -- NARRATIVES DEALING WITH BANCON'S REBELLION: Bacon's Death -- ROBERT BEVERLEY: How he came to Write ; The Pastimes of Colonial Virginia -- COLONEL WILLIAM BYRD: North Carolina Husbandry Running the Boundary Line through the Dismal Swamp ; Primitive Dentistry ; The Spotswood Home -- HENRY LAURENS. A Bold Toast ; An Incorruptible Patriot ; No Running Away -- GEORGE WASHINGTON: To the Governors of All the States ; The Spirit of Party ; America's True Foreign Policy -- PATRICK HENRY. The Alternative -- THOMAS JEFFERSON: Jefferson on France ; First Innaugural Address. |
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DAVID RAMSAY: Some Results of the Revolution -- JAMES MADISON. A Standing Army and the Constitution -- MRS: ELIZA WILKINSON. A Sprightly and Patriotic Carolina Dame -- ST: GEORGE TUCKER: Resignation -- JOHN MARSHALL. The Character of Washington -- MASON LOCKE WEEMS: Washington and the Cherry Tree ; Marion's Escape -- WILLIAM WIRT. The Bline Preacher ; Burr and Blennerhassett ; To Catharine Wirt -- JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE: Vaulting Ambition ; Internal Improvements and Loose Constructions ; The Qualities of a Chief -- DR: JOHN SHAW: Song -- FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. The Star-Spangled Banner -- WASHINGTON ALLSTON: America to Great Britain -- JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN: "Ours is a Federal and not a National Government" ; The Conclusion of Calhoun's Last Speech -- DAVID CROCKETT: Concerning his Book ; A Backwoods Magistrate ; Killing a Bear ; Crockett defeated for Congress -- BEVERLEY TUCKER: Partisans on the Alert ; An Unflattering Description of Van Buren -- WILLIAM JOHN GRAYSON. A Famous Carolina School ; A Unique Jail -- RICHARD HENRY WILDE: Stanzas ; To the Mocking-bird. |
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AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET. The Horse-swap -- ROBERT YOUNG HAYNE: Webster vs: Benton ; The Friends and the Enemies of the Union ; The South Carolina Doctrine -- SAM HOUSTON. The Victor's Description of the Battle of San Jacinto -- JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY. An Old Virginia Estate and its Master ; A Combination of Vulcan and Mars -- HUGH SWINTON LEGARE: Byron and Scott ; A Court Dinner ; Expensive Living -- FRANCIS LISTER HAWKS: Colonial Piracy -- MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR. The Daughter of Mendoza -- EDWARD COATE PINKNEY: Italy ; A Picture-Song ; Song ; A Serenade ; A Health ; Song -- CHARLES ETIENNE ARTHUR GAYARRE: Characteristics of the Natchez and Other Southern Indians ; The Tree of the Dead -- MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY: Free Navigation of the Amazon -- WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS. The Lost Pleiad ; A Sea-king's State ; Fascinated by a Rattlesnake ; A Southern Storm ; The Burden of the Desert. |
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GENERAL ROBERT E: LEE: Speech of April 23, 1861, before the Virginia Convention ; To Mrs: Lee after the First Battle of Manassas ; Traveller, as described by his Master ; To Mrs: Lee, Christmas Day, 1862 ; Order for a Day of Fasting ; To the President of the City Council of Richmond, etc ; Lees wanted in Battles, not at Balls ; Order announcing the Death of General J. E .B: Stuart ; Lee's Final Address to his Soldiers ; General Lee's Letter accepting the Presidency of Washington College -- JEFFERSON DAVIS. A Transcontinental Railway necessary to the Union ; From Senator Davis's Farewell Speech to the Senate -- EDGAR ALLEN POE. A Burst of Melody ; Sonnet-To Science ; To Helen ; Israfel ; To One in Paradise ; At School in England ; The Conqueror Worm ; The City in the Sea ; The Raven ; The Cask of Amontillado ; The Poetic Principle ; Annabel Lee -- ALBERT PIKE: To Apollo ; Dixie ; To the Mocking Bird ; From a Tribute to Shelley, written in 1835 -- ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS. A Plea for Union -- WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON. A Novel Courtship -- ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK. The Mockin Bird ; Balaklava ; Land of the South -- JOSEPH GLOVER BALDWIN. The Virginian in the Southwest ; A Tribute to Henry Clay -- JOHNSON JONES HOOPER. The Hero Described ; Militia Costumes in the "Flush Times" ; An Intractable Old Woman. |
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PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE. The Mountaineer ; Florence Vane ; The Art of the Poet -- THEODORE O'HARA. The Bvouac of the Dead -- HENRY ROOTES JACKSON. The Red Old Hills of Georgia ; My Wife and Child -- WILLIAM HENRY TRESCOTT. The Patriotic Diplomats of the Revolution ; Washington and Jay's Treaty -- JAMES MATTHEWS LEGARE: To a Lilly ; Haw-blossoms -- JAMES BARRON HOPE. The Charge at Balaklava ; Washington and Lee -- HENRY TIMROD: Spring ; The Cotton Boll ; Katie ; Carolina ; Charleston ; Ode -- PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE. A Dream of the South Winds ; A Passage from "Fire Pictures" ; The Solitary Lake ; Aspects of the Pines ; The Woodland Phases ; Over the Waters ; To Henry W: Longfellow ; The Mocking-birds -- JOHN ESTEN COOKE. An Interior with Portraits ; The Band in the Pines -- MRS: MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON: Gone Forward ; The Shade of the Trees ; The Hero of the Commune -- DR: FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR: Little Giffen ; The Virginians of the Valley ; Virginia ; Lee ; Unknown ; Loyal ; Page Brook -- JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON: Ashby ; Music in Camp -- JAMES RYDER RANDALL: My Maryland ; John Pelham ; Why the Robin's Breast is Red -- ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN. The Conquered Banner ; The Sword of Robert Lee -- WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE: Dreaming in the Trenches ; Christmas Night of '62 ; John Pegram ; Only a Memory -- ANONYMOUS. The Soldier Boy ; "The Brigade must not know, Sir!" -- RICHARD MALCOM JOHNSTON: On the Morrow of Secession ; The "Dukesborough" Counry ; A Town Darky in the Country -- L.Q.C: LAMAR. The Eulogy of Sumner -- CHARLES COLCOCK JONES, JR. The Negro and the Alligator -- MRS: SUSAN DABNEY SMEDES. A Hero of the Old South -- SIDNEY LANIER: Opposition ; Evening Song ; The Marshes of Glynn ; Extracts From Lanier's Correspondence -- GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE: Some Creole Characters -- JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS: Mr: Benjamin Ram and his Wonderful Fiddle ; Brother ;Billy Goat eats his Dinner. |
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JAMES LANE ALLEN. The Woods are Hushed -- MISS MARY NOAILLES MURFREE. A Group of Pioneers ; Spring and Summer in East Tennessee -- HENRY WOODFIN GRADY. The New South -- MISS GRACE ELIZABETH KING. The Burial of Gayarre ; De Soto and Atahualpa ; Cabeza de Vaca -- IRWIN RUSSELL. The Banjo ; Nebuchadnezzar ; Norvern People ; The Cemetery -- THOMAS NELSON PAGE. The South and the Historian it Needs ; The Old Colonel -- WALTER HINES PAGE. The Tyranny of Caste ; The New Educational Progress ; The Value of the Child ; The School that made the Town -- JOHN BANISTER TABB: My Star ; The Half-ring Moon ; Childhood ; Keats-Sppho ; To the Babe Niva ; To Sidney Lanier -- CARLYLE MCKINLEY: Sapelo -- GEORGE HERBERT SASS. The Confederate Dead ; In a King-Cambyses Vein ; A Face -- SAMUEL MINTURN PECK: Alabama ; Paul Hamilton Hayne ; The Grapevine Swing ; A Southern Girl ; Aunt Jamima's Quilt ; Phyllis ; From "A Winter Day" -- WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE. A Cyclone at Sea ; "Sleep and his Brother Death" ; The Yule Log -- YATES SNOWDEN. A Carolina Bourbon. |
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HENRY JEROME STOCKARD: At Fordham ; To an Old Oak ; Homer -- MRS: DANSKE DANDRIDGE: Silence ; Glamour-land ; The Prelude ; The Spirit of the Fall ; As You Went Down the Road -- ROBERT LOVEMAN. The Races Rise and Fall ; What of the Men of Mars? ; Song ; A Flake at a Time ; I Pined in a Palace Grand ; In Ancient Greece ; The Lily Whispered -- BENJAMIN SLEDD: United ; Down and the Peak ; To Sappho ; The Children -- MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN: Wood-words ; Rain and Wind ; Rest ; Heart's Encouragement ; Love and a Day ; Requiescat ; Beauty and Art -- WALTER MALONE: October in Tennessee ; A Portrait of Henry Timrod ; Napoleon and Byron -- LUCIEN V. RULE: Absence ; Constancy. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes autograph of Minnie T. Bond accompanied by the Greek letters sigma phi kappa and the word "Peace" on front flyleaf and autograph of Minnie Turner Bond, Peace Institute, Raleigh, N.C. on rear flyleaf. Notations in pencil throughout text. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Bell Family Trust, 6-1-22 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939. Southern writers. New York, Macmillan Co.; London, Macmillan & Co., 1905 |
| Genre/form | Literary collections. |
| Genre/form | Literature. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 05017317 |
