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The Olivia Letters

Name: The Olivia Letters
Author: Emily Edson Briggs

by Emily Edson Briggs

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The Olivia Letters Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by ellinora, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2019-01-03

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Washington (D.C.) -- History United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933 F106

About the author

Emily Edson Briggs

1831–1910

A pioneering Washington journalist, she spent decades turning politics, society, and city life into lively newspaper columns and later gathered those memories into a book about the capital. Writing under the pen name "Olivia," she helped open political reporting to women in the nineteenth century.

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