Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 223
Miss Wilson. 1808. S30 Two Centuries of Costume that they are to us ever beautiful. The story ofWashington Irvings despairing young love for Ma-tilda Hoffman, and his life-long mourning, havebeen a romantic delight to young girls of manydecades. Beautiful and more beautiful did Irving … Matilda Hoffman. call her till the day of his death, and I have neverdoubted her beauty, which has been told by all whoknew her. But I have always regretted that I eversaw her miniature. The eyes are fine, but thetriangular contour of the face, the shape of thehead, even the placing of the ear, are…
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