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- catalog abstract "For nearly a century, the letters of the Clay and Field families lay in a trunk in the dusty attic of an estate in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Written between 1843 and 1870, they soon captured the attention of regional historians and local archivists, for the Clays and Fields were distinguished families and their members had played key roles in Kentucky's - and indeed America's - history. Family descendants like Mary Clay Berry, however, knew that the letters had greater significance than mere regional artifacts. The story they told was as great as the republic itself. The Clays and Fields were diplomats, housewives, store owners, politicians, gossips, Mississippi cotton planters, college students in New England, belles, entrepreneurs, and cattle farmers. Their correspondence comprises nothing less than a nineteenth century American saga, a brilliant quilt of connected lives unfolding during the days of the country's greatest calamity, the Civil War.".
- catalog contributor b9998558.
- catalog coverage "Kentucky History 1792-1865 Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Kentucky History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "For nearly a century, the letters of the Clay and Field families lay in a trunk in the dusty attic of an estate in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Written between 1843 and 1870, they soon captured the attention of regional historians and local archivists, for the Clays and Fields were distinguished families and their members had played key roles in Kentucky's - and indeed America's - history. Family descendants like Mary Clay Berry, however, knew that the letters had greater significance than mere regional artifacts. The story they told was as great as the republic itself. The Clays and Fields were diplomats, housewives, store owners, politicians, gossips, Mississippi cotton planters, college students in New England, belles, entrepreneurs, and cattle farmers. Their correspondence comprises nothing less than a nineteenth century American saga, a brilliant quilt of connected lives unfolding during the days of the country's greatest calamity, the Civil War.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 522 :".
- catalog hasFormat "Voices from the century before.".
- catalog identifier "1559703423".
- catalog isFormatOf "Voices from the century before.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Arcade Pub. ; [Boston, Mass.] : Distributed by Little, Brown and Co.,".
- catalog relation "Voices from the century before.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky History 1792-1865 Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Kentucky History Civil War, 1861-1865.".
- catalog subject "973.7/092/2 B 20".
- catalog subject "CT274.C57 B47 1996".
- catalog subject "Clay family.".
- catalog subject "Field family.".
- catalog title "Voices from the century before : the odyssey of a nineteenth- century Kentucky family / Mary Clay Berry.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".