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Who, and What, Has Not Failed

The narrator reflects on responses to the US financial crisis of 1837, focusing on a family whose daughter is about to be married, and offers an alternative to panic and despair.

Tags: "L' Aurora", 1837, bankruptcy, books, children, cholera, Ellen Tree, fidelity, financial crisis, Guido Reni, Hoboken, kindness, Love, marriage, Nature, New York, New-Yorker, Panic of 1837, Paris, servants, speculation, The Metropolitan

The Ballet: An American Lady's Opinion of the Opera

Sedgwick describes seeing Marie Taglioni dance in London, and and declares ballet to be lacking in virtue.

Tags: 1841, ballet, civilization, corruption, La Gitana, letters, Letters from Abroad, Marie Taglioni, Mary Wollestonecraft, modesty, New-Yorker, Thomas Carlyle, virtue

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