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Not a Single Man In Love in Lone London
A noisy verse fragment satirizes marriage and courtship with repeated lines about being “not a single man” as the speaker laments changes in domestic life and social expectations, weaving through sarcastic jests on wives, mothers, and courtship. The piece is followed by lengthy U.S. Senate Post Office Department proceedings from 1831 recounting Abraham Bradley’s memorial alleging improper extra allowances and erasures in documents tied to postmaster generals Barry and McLean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT
Senate
Chambers
Abraham Bradley
senate of the
U. S
United States
Barry
Harrall
select committee of the
congress
Ohio
Harralls
A. Bradley, Jr
McLean
Harrell
theeate
agiadut
Grundy
Bratley
Alessis. Brown
Luter
Clayton
rose
Irian
Tennessee
select committee
Bradley
eneral
Maine
Mesora
Holmes
William T. Barry
dle
South Carolina
prodigy
Grunpy
general post-office
Burner
committee on the post-office
patie
cia
asures
Mr. Bradley
Mr. marys
M’Lean
Mr. Barry
Mr. Brown
aria
Phineas Braid
fey
Abraham
arsistact
Gardner
Brown
U. States
getteral
Mr. Iry
McMcLean
ime
eect
atleman
Frinton
M*Lean