Daniel Ricketson, autobiographic and miscellaneous;

Anna Ricketson

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IS ill ! ''V* THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES n crayon portrait by Lonisa Ricketson from crayon Charles Martinportrait by " AUTOBIOGRAPHIC AND MISCELLANEOUS 11 this ourbecoming permanentduring my infancy, until after the death of our mother inabode 1827, of our father toand the hissubsequent marriage was our thethird wife. home,Very pleasant withhouse a sizedgood one, ample grounds fruit andaround with ornamental and trees,it, the front laid out with box borders,yards nicely near the frontat the corners on each side gate, ofwere two snowball bushes large(Guelder Rose) whose blossoms were much admired ;size, profuse in centrea "smoke an "arbor vitae" thebush," of each box-circle either side of the fromflags the to the front door a dwarf andgate magnolia, Persian with our beautiful andlilac, fragrant "damask favorite of all rosesroses," my still, white and cinnamon these made our frontroses, when the horse-chestyards particularly pleasant nuts and were in the former a rowcatalpa bloom, in and the other in the west a noblefront, yard, tree the shade of which was in the suldelightful of summer. Our afforded ustry days garden red and as well as andcurrants, white, vegetables, extended our fields of several acres. Onebeyond of earliest reminiscences daremy (I hardly say is of carried out into thememories,) being "meadows" we called after the had(as them) hay been "cocked at to see and ofup" night it, losing inone of shoes.

Sujets

• Ricketson
• American literature
• New England

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 12
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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DANIEL RICKETSON
AUTOBIOGRAPHIC AND MISCELLANEOUSDANIEL BICKETSON
AUTOBIOGRAPHIC
AND
MISCELLANEOUS