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Blog Entries by Carolyn Vega from 04/2011

Lafcadio Hearn Begs, "Don't Disgust Me, Please --"

| Posted 04.01.2011 | New York
Read More: Authors, Rejection Letters, Letters, Lafcadio Hearn, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York News

One-eyed, diminutive and poor -- and self-described as painfully awkward -- Hearn was nonetheless a hit with certain ladies. One of these ladies, Ellen Freeman, did not excite reciprocal feelings.

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Happy Birthday, William Wordsworth!

| Posted 04.07.2011 | New York
Read More: Poetry, William Wordsworth, New York News

Wordsworth's creative process, like his poetry, was more complex than simply recording his natural surroundings.

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Before Chickamauga

| Posted 04.13.2011 | New York
Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Letters, American Civil War, The Morgan Library & Museum, Civil War Correspondence, Andrew Johnson Letter, Abraham Lincoln Letter, Andrew Johnson, New York News

With the Battle of Chickamauga still a week away, Abraham Lincoln wrote to the military governor of occupied Tennessee, and later president, Andrew Johnson.

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Mary Lamb's Not-So-Gentle Madness

| Posted 04.21.2011 | New York
Read More: Insanity Defense, Murder, Mary Lamb, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, New York News

William Hazlitt described Lamb as the most "reasonable woman" he ever knew. Reasonable seems an odd choice to describe a woman who, in a "fit of mania," killed her mother with a kitchen knife.

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