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Author: Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt), 1809-1860.
Title: The sunny South, or, The southerner at home : embracing five years' experience of a northern governess in the land of the sugar and the cotton /
Print source: The sunny South, or, The southerner at home : embracing five years' experience of a northern governess in the land of the sugar and the cotton / edited by Professor J.H. Ingraham.
Ingraham, J. H. (Joseph Holt), 1809-1860.
Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860.
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
2007-12-04
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Subject terms:
Southern States--Social life and customs--1775-1865.
Tennessee--Social life and customs.
Southwest, Old--Social life and customs.
URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735054778554;view=toc;c=darltext

Contents
[Front Cover]
[Front Matter]
[Title Page]
Editorial Letter to this Volume
Preface
Contents
Letter I. Introductory. Titles, how selected -- Their value to a [...]
Letter II. A western home -- Cole -- Beautiful scenery -- Cotton and [...]
Letter III. The planter and his retinue -- The African servant [...]
Letter IV. The hunters' return -- The two strangers -- the authoress' [...]
Letter V. Touring amoung the mountains -- The letter -- the struggle -- [...]
Letter VI. Author's looks -- Camel's hair pencils -- The plantation bell -- [...]
Letter VII. Fox-hunting -- Kate's courser -- The young Tennessee hunters -- [...]
Letter VIII. The morning start -- The ravine and dogs -- The [...]
Letter IX. The rural chapel -- The gray-haired pastor --The [...]
Letter X. Nashville -- Its approaches -- The Hermitage and tomb --The [...]
Letter XI. Enlisted as contributor -- Gratitude -- The hopes and fears [...]
Letter XII. The invitation -- The intelligence of the horse --Nineveh -- [...]
Letter XIII. The good and true -- Kate's bravery doubted --The [...]
Letter XIV. The pet fawn -- Buck and wolf -- The uproar [...]
Letter XV. The scenery about the lodge -- The Polks --The [...]
Letter XVI. Emerson and his thoughts -- Female writers -- The colonel [...]
Letter XVII. The Nashville convention -- The site of the city -- [...]
Letter XVIII. A mysterious letter -- Not a declaration --The fame [...]
Letter XIX. The authoress writes a tale -- A word to [...]
Letter XX. Fishing -- Costume for the woods -- Isabel in becoming [...]
Letter XXI. Ralph Waldo Emerson -- His philosophy -- A critique -- Where [...]
Letter XXII. No more book -- Proposed departure to the Springs -- [...]
Letter XXIII. The secret -- Visit to Columbia -- The birth-place [...]
Letter XXIV. The Eden of Tennessee -- The editor's excursion -- Duck [...]
Letter XXV. A watering place -- Its tedium -- The last resort -- [...]
Letter XXVI. The hour and pen for writing -- The return [...]
Letter XXVII. The novelty of south-western life --An enumeration [...]
Letter XXVIII. The baggage -- Parting at the park -- Pets -- The [...]
Letter XXIX. The beauty of the Ohio -- The pirates's cave -- [...]
Letter XXX. Entrance into the Mississippi -- Meeting of the waters -- [...]
Letter XXXI. The city of Natchez -- Its elegance -- The beauty [...]
Letter XXXII. The old family -- The position of governesses in [...]
Letter XXXIII. Lost needles -- The old parson -- The carefully entrusted [...]
Letter XXXIV. In Louisiana -- Letters from the prairies -- Narrative resumed -- [...]
Letter XXXV. Interior of a packet -- The find old southern [...]
Letter XXXVI. The lower Mississippi -- Scenery on the shores --A [...]
Letter XXXVII. The old pilot -- The red pole -- A corsair [...]
Letter XXXVIII. The sugar estate -- Chateau and quartier -- Sucrerie -- Cost [...]
Letter XXXIX. Descendants of the French in Louisiana -- View from [...]
Letter XL. Music by night -- Isabel -- Musquito-bars -- The carriage [...]
Letter XLI. First Impressions of a city -- The foreign aspect [...]
Letter XLII. Approach to the city -- Gardens and villas -- Arrival [...]
Letter XLIII. The levee at New Orleans -- Ride along the [...]
Letter XLIV. The model hotel-proprietor -- Diplomas -- Hotel-keeping and [...]
Letter XLV. The peculiarity of the streets -- Young ladies taught [...]
Letter XLVI. Return to the country -- Correction of error caused [...]
Letter XLVII. Danger of postponement of wedding -- Objections now to [...]
Letter XLVIII. A wedding -- Men's curiosity -- The dogs, birds, and [...]
Letter XLIX. The cortege -- Slave costume -- The wreath of orange [...]
Letter L. Preparations for Havana -- The dignity of Webster -- A [...]
Letter LI. Descending the Mississippi -- The Balize -- Singular appearance of [...]
Letter LII. Havanna -- The Moro Castle -- A line [...]
Letter LIII. New York -- Neptune -- Calm seas -- The living heart [...]
Letter LIV. The departure over sea -- Leave the city -- Cars
Letter LV. My native village -- The scenes at home -- The [...]
Letter LVI. A surprise -- Marriage of Kate nearly three years [...]
Letter LVII. Mistaken for another -- The European Miss Conyngham -- Letters [...]
Letter LVIII. Illawalla or Lover's Lake -- Beautiful lawns -- The house [...]
Letter LIX. The picture -- Aunt Winny -- Florette and Harry -- Aunt [...]
Letter LX. Shopping -- The new fashion -- Chloe and the mode -- [...]
Letter LXI. The commissariat's department -- Harry and the doctor -- The [...]
Letter LXII. Talkative pens -- Thibodeaux -- Enter La Fourche -- The voyage [...]
Letter LXIII. Authors and money -- The sight of the Gulf -- [...]
Letter LXIV. Identity of authors -- Speculations -- Pen -- Names -- Our tent [...]
Letter LXV. The summer resort of Louisiananians -- The Roman Chapel -- [...]
Letter LXVI. Leave the pass -- The Oregon -- Lake by moonlight -- [...]
Letter LXVII. The southern clime -- Society in Mobile -- Beauty of [...]
Letter LXVIII. Leave the hospitalities of Mobile -- Its pleasant people [...]
Letter LXIX. An old Virginia Inn -- First Families -- Walter Raleigh -- [...]
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