Minutes 13 November 1905
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Minutes 13 November 1905
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[Page 1] It was a real Indian summer day when the club met with Mrs. Dupuy upon the afternoon of Nov. 13th, and the balmy air that came in through the open window was grateful to all, especially to the flushed cheeks of those who were contributing to the program. All save two answered to their names, & responded with quote item War items both interesting and apposite. * It was peculiarly fitting that our the meeting that dealt with Mrs. Pryor and her Reminiscences of the Civil War should be held with Mrs. Dupuy, and we listened with genuine interest to all our hostess could tell us, remembering that she was an eye-witness of much described by our talented authoress, as well as co-sufferer as a daughter of the South. We were glad to learn more definitely of Mrs. Roger Pryor, née Sarah Rice, of Charlottesville Ga. near which well-nigh classic town she was reared most tenderly before being
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[Page 1 insert] Current Events were provided by Mrs. Black, and her list was both interesting and well chosen.
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[Page 2] launched upon her brilliant career as one of the most beautiful, most gifted, and at the same time most distinctly womanly representative of the best type of the American Woman. Her calm stately face and bearing show the composure only won through self-command and suffering - just the face we imagine her as possessing when we remember her brave reply to the officers who, hot upon their pursuit of her husband after one of his several duels pressed her to reveal his hiding place: “I had rather be a brave man’s widow than a coward’s wife!” She is said to have fought adversity like a soldier, and to have borne it when it came like a Christian, and surely her proud heart must have been wrung most sorely when her only son, after graduating from Princeton with the highest honor taken since the days of Aaron Burr, was ignominiously drowned three weeks later. We are somewhat discouraged, we who have little patience & no millinery skill, to learn that while in Washington, Mrs. Pryor attended to all her Senatorial duties, taught her
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[Page 3] Children - and trimmed her own hats! In reading the Reminiscences perhaps shape some of us may imagine that we detect a tinge of the defection from the South of which her brilliant husband has been accused at times. We hope this is a mistake, and that what she recorded in her book comes to her from a road and world - wise knowledge of both North and South in the past and in the present. And it is with a feeling of pride and delight that we close her record, glad to make the acquaintance of so true and so charming a child of the old - time civilization, as well as so clever a woman of the world. We are heartily glad, as southern women, to be represented in New York society by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. After friendly intercourse, broken by the serving of dainty and well timed refreshments, the Club adjourned to meet Nov. 25 with Mrs. Harrison.
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Subject
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Women-North Carolina-Davidson-Societies and clubs.
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Books and reading.
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Women-Societies and clubs.
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North Carolina-Davidson.
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Creator
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BookLovers Club
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Publisher
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Davidson College
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Date
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13 November 1905
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For permission to reproduce image, contact archives@davidson.edu
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eng
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text
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bl-049
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1905
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4049696
