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Miss Marbury's Catalog of Contemporaries
Miss Elisabeth Marbury, in the course of an active life as dramatic agent and politician, has met practically every notable contemporary. Of them she writes a stream of anecdotes, many interesting, others less so. Her style is not notable—her material voluminous. She is herself a personality not lacking in interest.
Her Career. The Quaker grandfather who had met George Washington and the first John Jacob Astor; her father, politician and wit; a first Paris dress; school teaching with...
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