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Excerpt from A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 Washington, the six or seven weeks over which our intercourse extended were a continual striking Of rare lodes of incident, which lay almost forgotten in the memory of her kinswoman, Mrs. Clay-clopton, but which have contributed greatly to the interest Of certain chap ters dealing with W'ashington life in antebellum days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.