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Title: Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: De Leon, T. C. (Thomas Cooper), 1839-1914
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Publisher: New York : G.W. Dillingham Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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stimulus of rare good cheer andrarer good coffee. Such pianists as Miss Mattie Paul performed the works ofthe masters or accompanied the not always tuneful wandering minstrels from camp. MissPaul was an accomplishedplayer and was perhaps themoving center of things mu-sical in Richmond. Literallyshe was the enfan gate ofthe Mosaic, as popular withwomen as with men. Mrs.Gustavus Myers might wellhave quoted, when her sonmarried: ^^No sweeter woman eer drew breathThan my sons wife. Probably no war-time MRS. W. B. MEYERS , ,. (mattie PAUL) weddmg was prettier or more picturesque—surely nonemore showered with golden wishes—than that of Miss Paulto the popular Willie Myers, Breckinridges adjutant-gen-eral. Myers survived the war but a few years. In her Virginiahome his widow has seen the youth she seems never to havelost, renewed in daughters as fair as she was in war-time.Lelia, the elder, is wife of John Hill Morgan, a member of theNew York bar, residing in Brooklyn. The other, Adela,
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BELLES, BEAUX AND BE A INS OF THE SIXTIES 203 is now the wife of Dr. Richard Frothingham ONeil, of Boston,a son of the admiral of that name. She is the mother of onechild. At these informal Mosaic Club evenings rare Ran Tuckerforgot dusty tomes and legal lore to tell his inimitablestories. The poets and authors were familiar at the Mosaic. JohnR. Thompson—already famous as longtime editor of theSouthern Literary Messenger and accepted as the best poetof the war—was an earnest member, and more than one of hisimmortal poems was there read first and discussed with afrankness that sometimes made the hypersensitive little poetstar^. The current and coming features of the only Con-federate magazine were there frankly discussed and antici-pated, and if memory does not trick me, the beautiful poem,The Battle Rainbow, was first read to the old Mosaics.Poor Thompson! tender and too true—victim of his ownsensitiveness and of a time of stress it might not withstand—died in the mid-rush of

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