Scrapbook I., 11/28/1885-10/28/1888

Contains large scrapbook including primarily newsclippings and some autograph manuscripts by MVD. Itemization is by page number with descriptions of individual news items. [Inside front cover] "Trespass Law in Maryland" (The Boonsboro Times, Thursday June 3, 1886). Concerns revision of law permitting the grazing of cattle on roadsides in order to prevent herds from wandering onto neighboring property. "Gold Discovered" (presumable from the same paper as above). Concerns the discovery of gold on Keadle farm, purchased by A.C. Huffer and G.c. sNYDER. [p.1] "Recollections of Admiral Dahlgren" (The State, Nov. 28, 1885). Article by Charles Cowley (1832-1908), lawyer and author. Details naval activities of JAD from 9/2/1843 to 1861. Refers to JAD's meetings with George Ticknor (1791-1871) man of letters and historian; and Count Henri Gratien Bertrand (1773-1844), French general and companion to Napoleon I. Also mentions General William T. Sherman and Mrs. Deborah Cilley, wife of Jonathan Cilley (1802-1838), congressman and lawyer, with reference to the latter's death in a duel with William J. Graves (1805-1848), congressman and lawyer, and to the life of Cilley's son. "Should America have a Westminster Abbey" (Capital, n.d.). Letter to the editor. Commentary in response to above-titled article by Canon Farrar in the Brooklyn Magazine. 3 small news items (c.1886-1888) re. MVD as author. Her novel, "A Washington Winter" (Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1883), is mentioned. 1 small news item mentions Col. Ulric Dahlgren, son of JAD and his first wife, Mary Bunker. [p.3] "Gath" at Gapland, Md." A lengthy description of the mountain lodge of George Alfred Townsend, located on the battlefield of Grampton's Gap, "58 miles from Washington on the Hagerstown branch of the Baltimore and [obscured] railroad." Second half of the article details the crematorium designed and built in 1876 by Dr. Francis Julius Lemoyne (1798-1879), physician, abolitionist, and advocate of cremation (particularly from 1876-1879). He was also the organizer of the Pennsylvania Underground Railroad. "Washington in Lent. Literary Investigation and Organization Among Women in Society." (The Press, March 22, 1886). Describes the Washington Literary Society, founded by MVD. 8 small news items concern MVD's social activities and recently published books, "A Washington Winter," and her novelette, "The Lost Name," (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886), as well as fiction appearing in the Brooklyn magazine, "Lights and Shadows of a Life" (Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1887.) [p.5] "The Collegiate's Flowers" (Notre Dame Scholastic, March 27, 1886). An 8-stanza poem "Affectionately inscribed to my dear young friend, Miss Ulrica Dahlgren" by Eleanor C. Donnelly. "Medieavalism in Maryland." Describes the Dahlgren estate located on South Mountain near the scene of the battle lead by General Jesse Lee Reno (1823-1862). The house is compared to a medieval castle. Printed newspaper announcement of two plays presented at Georgetown University in which John V. Dahlgren and Eric Bernard Dahlgren participated (1886). They were the sons of MVD and JAD. Both sons are alumni of Georgetown: John Vinton graduated A.B. 1889, M.A. 1891, LL.B. 1891, LL.M. 1892; Eric Bernard entered in 1881 but did not graduate. [p.6a] 2 small obituaries for Henry Schlueter (4 months), 1/4/1885 and Raymond A. Barnacio (infant), 1/4/1886). [p.7] "Recollections of Admiral Dahlgren," by Charles Cowley. (See same article, p.1). "Early Marriages. The Opinions of Twenty Famous American Women on the Subject.' (The Press, c. March 1886). Comments collected include those from MVD and Rebecca Harding Davis (writer, 1831-1910). Small news item (n.d.) describes MVD's new book, "The Lost Name." [p.9] "Retort Courteous." Small news item recalling some remarks exchanged by politicians at the Hartford Convention, 12/15/1814, Hartford, Conn. Reference to congressman Calvin Goddard (1768-1842). Untitled news item re. Dahlgren estate on South Mountain known as "Fairview," MVD's summer residence (Baltimore American, May 22, 1886). Describes a tour of the property where MVD erected memorials to her first husband Daniel Convers Goddard (married 1846, died 1851), and to her her son by him, Lieut. Vinton Augustine Goddard, U.S. Army. References are made also to the death of JAD's son (by his first marriage to Mary Bunker), Col. Ulric Dahlgren, U.S. Army (3/4/1864), and to the return of his sword which had been lost when he was killed in action in Richmond. 3-4 other news items similar to that on p.5 describe "Fairview," the Dahlgrens' South Mountain estate. [p.11] "Something About Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren, the Society Star and Writer of Clever Fiction" (The Republic, Sunday. . .c.1886). Concerns MVD's travels in Philadelphia to gather material for a Quaker city society caricature. Mentions her close friendship with "Historian Bancroft," probably the American historian and diplomat George Bancroft (1800-1891) famous for his multi-volume "History of the United States." Numerous other small news items (May-July 1886) concern MVD's book, "The Lost Name." [p.13] 5 news items (1886) discussing MVD's activities as social starlet and author. Mentions her books, among them a revision (1872) of a biography of her stemson, Co. Ulric Dahlgren, which was originally written by JAD; and another entitled, "Legends of South Mountain," published as "South Mountain Magic" (1882). Small news item: "Miss Dahlgren, the debutant daughter of Mrs. Vinton Dahlgren, has a stylish dog-cart, which she drives with a skill born of long practice." Reference probably to Ulrica Mary Madeleine Dahlgren. [14a + 14b] 2 AMs poems, author not identified. [14a] entitled, "Arlington Cemetery"; [14b] entitled, "The First Violet." [p.15] "The Sign of the Cross." n.d. An anecdote by MVD. 2 news items re. the publication of MVD's novel, "Lights and Shadows of a Life" (first published in the Brooklyn Magazine, c. 1885; then published by Ticknor and Company, Boston, 1887). "Society." (N.Y., 3/5/1888). Mentions presence of MVD at the Lotos Club. "Abbess Makrena Mieczyslawska" (n.d.) Introudction to a translation by MVD from the original French of a testimonial by the Abbess Makrena Miecyzslawska of seven years of persecution for her Catholic faith. [pp.17-27] Continuation of the translation above. [p.27] News item (The Church News, n.d.) reviewing MVD's book, "The Lost Name." [p.28a] Printed announcement of MVD's book, "Lights and Shadows of a Life." [p.28b] AMs poem written in the memory of Louise Bayard, wife of U.S. secretary of state Thomas F. Bayard (1885-1889). She died, 1/31/1886. AMs is in the hand of MVD. [p.29] "Mrs. Dahlgren" n.d. Mentions MVD's return from her summer home on South Mountain to her new home at Thomas Circle, Washington, D.C. Also mentions a portrait sketch of MVD then in circulation, which erroneously shows her "as tall, slender, and youthful, with superb flashing dark eyres, erect figure..." when in fact, the article goes on to say, "she was of short stature, and much inclined to embonpoint since the almost fatal accident of a few years since. She has blue eyes..." "Dahlgren Post 2 G.A.R. Prsentations and address by Col. C.B. Dahlgren" n.d. Article describes the occasion of an address given by Charles Bunker dahlgren to the members of Post 2 G.A.R. concerning the invention and use of the Dahlgren gun. Charles Bunker Dahlgren was the son of JAD and Mary Bunker, the latter's first wife. The article also recounts "some of the most celebrated occasions" when the Dahlgren gun was used. [p.31] Includes several news items concerning MVD's books, particularly, "Lights and Shadows of a Life,: and one entitled "Divorced" (Chicago & New York: Belford, Clarke and Company, 1887). [pp.33-35] "An