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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 23 - European Trade
Bridge on the Sutlej. Sir Henry Yule 1846. Courtesy of the British Library
Flag of Dutch East India Company
Flag of B...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 22 - Mausoleums and Wax Seals
Mausoleums
Ongley Mausoleum. St. Leonard’s Church, Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England. Historic Listed Building.
Milton Mausoleum....
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 21 - A Royal Marriage and Home
King George III and Queen Charlotte
King George III in Coronation Robes. 1765 Allan Ramsay. Courtesy of the Art Gallery of South Australi...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 20 - New Orleans, Land, and Race
The Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans. 1910 Edward Percy Moran. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The Battle of...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 19 - Apsley House and Moore
Letter #18 - Apsley House and Moore
Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, pg. 227 from “London in the Nineteenth Century” 1828. Courtesy British ...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 15 - Festive Merry-Making
Letter #15 - Festive Merry-Making
Twelfth Night Merry-Making in Farmer Shakeshaft’s Barn. C. 1850. From Mervyn Clithroe by William Ainswor...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 18 - Wellington and St. Valentine
Letter #18 - Wellington and St. Valentine
Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), The 1st Duke of Wellington, Thomas Lawrence 1815/1816. Courtesy of ...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 17 - Letters, Gossip, and Satire
Letter #17 – Letters, Gossip, and Satire
A Crossed Letter to Cassandra Austen from Jane Austen, 1808. Courtesy of the Morgan Library and Mu...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 16 - Regency Fashion
Letter #16 – Regency Fashion
Fashion Plate, “English Fashions in Nov. 1806/Parisian Fashions Nov. 1806” for ‘La Belle Assemblée’”, John Be...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 14 - Pistols at Dawn
Chivalry
No Joke. Etching by Thomas Lord Busby. 1826 London. Courtesy British Museum
Chivalry today is thought to be a term to den...
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 12 – Bath and Social Calls
Bath
Roman Baths and Abbey, IV, Bath, England. Photochrome print reproduction. ca 1890 and ca 1900. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
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Adelaide Magnolia Letter 13 – Clandestine Marriages
Gretna Green and Reputations
Smuggling Out, or Starting for Gretna Green. Etching print. Rowlandson, T; Schütz, HT. 1798. Courtesy of the M...
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