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                         A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES


[Illustration:

  MRS. CLAY

  of Alabama
]




                         A Belle of the Fifties
Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering Social and Political Life in
    Washington and the South, 1853–66 Put into narrative form by Ada
                                Sterling


               _Illustrated from contemporary portraits_

[Illustration]

                                New York
                       Doubleday, Page & Company
                                  1905




                          Copyright, 1904, by
                       Doubleday, Page & Company

                       Published, September, 1904




                                   To
               THE DEAR MEMORY OF THE HUSBAND OF MY YO