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What Kind of Meat The Readings of Statesmen
A Washington era portrait catalogues the libraries of senators and officials. Mrs. Cleveland and many lawmakers discussed reading tastes, with Hoar Sumner Bradley Hay Davis and others noted for French, German, and classical works, plus prized rare editions and navigated by a cabinet circle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon Newcome
Moses
Washington
Great Congressional
George Bancroft
Lord Byron
Wordsworth
Cleveland
Goo Books
Laura Doon
White House
Lord Fauntleroy
Dorricourt
Hoar
Senate
Charles Sumner
Sumner
Massachusetts
Bancroft
Bradley
Supreme Court
Congressman Hitt
Illinois
Lincoln
Phelps
Hitt
John Hay
Hay
Don Quixote
Thackery
Omar Kharzam
Elihu Vedder
Mrs. Hay
London
Bayard
Whitney
Endicott
Robert Lincoln
Sam Cox
Cash. K. Davis
Minnesota
Simon Newcomb
New
J. W. Powell
Geological Survey
Banyan
Pilgrim's Progress
Vicar of Wakefield
Douglas Jerrold
David Copperfield
Hugo
Thackeray
Wilkie Collins
George Sand
Rabelais
Cowles
Richmond
Brooklyn
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senator Berry
Balzac
Senator Edmunds
Connecticut Avenue
Sherman
Gladstone
Judge Lamar
Edward Everett
Judge Gray
Congressional Library
Blaine
Senator Davis
Cabinet
Windom
Prof. Gardner Hubbard
Gen. Noble
Interior
St. Louis
Noble
W. A Crorrot