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Title: Romantic days in the early republic
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t markedthe end of Poes intimate connection with Rich-mond ; for very soon now he went forth to makehis own way in the world. A very romantic love-affair of Richmond inearly Republican days was that of Maria Wardand John Randolph of Roanoke. The attach-ment began in Randolphs early boyhood andbecame, according to the writer ^ already re-ferred to, the one enthralling passion of Ran-dolphs manhood, filling his whole being, until,as he himself said, he loved her better than hisown soul or Him that created it. A pictureof Randolph, made at the period when he wasthe accepted lover of Maria Ward, shows himto have been, then, a singularly handsome youth,with dark and luminous eyes and a profusionof soft black hair which would have gone far,had he been much less Indian in other ways thanhe proved himself, to establish his direct descentfrom Pocahontas. But though he was a hand-some youth and though his wooing of MariaWard was long and ardent he was never to have ^ Of Some Richmond Portraits.
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