 | Mississippi Valley Historical Association - 1915 - 376 Seiten
...delightful letters home, from one of which we desire to quote: LEXINGTON, May 27th, 1818. The town and vicinity are very handsome. The streets are broad,...sometimes even but one story high, like English cottages. In the afternoon I walked about town with Mr. [Henry] Clay, and called at a few charming houses. I... | |
 | Organization of American Historians - 1915 - 410 Seiten
...delightful letters home, from one of which we desire to quote: LEXINGTON, May 27th, 1818. The town and vicinity are very handsome. The streets are broad,...sometimes even but one story high, like English cottages. In the afternoon I walked about town with Mr. [Henry] Clay, and called at a few charming houses. I... | |
 | John D. Wright, Jr. - 2006 - 468 Seiten
...Lexington in the spring of 1818 and was impressed by the town and its hospitality. He wrote his wife that the town and the vicinity are very handsome. The streets...taste is for low houses, generally two, sometimes even one story high, like English cottages. . . . The town is handsomer than I expected, and has a more... | |
 | Organization of American Historians - 1916 - 374 Seiten
...delightful letters home, from one of which we desire to quote: LEXINGTON, May 27th, 1818. The town and vicinity are very handsome. The streets are broad,...sometimes even but one story high, like English cottages. In the afternoon I walked about town with Mr. [Henry] Clay, and called at a few charming houses. I... | |
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LEXINGTON, May 27th, 1818. The town and vicinity are very handsome. The streets are broad, straight, paved, clean, and have rows of trees on each side. The houses are of brick almost universally, many of them in the midst of fields, and have a very rural... 