PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00064::Ambrose Bierce Collection)//EN" "ViU00064.sgm" A Guide to the Ambrose Bierce CollectionBierce, Ambrose. 5992-pProcessed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Gavin WatsonFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00064::Ambrose Bierce Collection)//EN" "ViU00064.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Ambrose Bierce Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 5992-p

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Ambrose Bierce Collection 1898 5992-p 1 item English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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Ambrose Bierce Collection, Accession 5992-p, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

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Purchased, June 8, 1994.

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Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Item List Letter Ambrose Bierce, Wright's, California, to Belle Hershberg, Oakland, California 1898 Aug 30 ALS, 4 p. on 1 l., with envelope

[Bierce declines a guided tour of Silver Lakedue to his poor health and continues by teasing Belle about her younger sister, "I'm thinking seriously of transferring my love from Hattie to you. You don't move away without notice, and -well, your mother's right in worrying about Hattie. That girl needs a convent worse than Selma -a convent with more austere 'sisters' and higher walls, topped with broken glass. A sentinel with a repeating rifle might be added."]