Letter, 1888 Dec. 30, Cobham, Va., to Mr. Robinson.

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Letter, 1888 Dec. 30, Cobham, Va., to Mr. Robinson.

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Declining to write an article on love ("I think that it is far too serious and awful a subject to be handled in so superficial a way"). With a small card signed Amélie Rives.

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Rives, Amélie 1863-1945

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Amélie Rives was born into an aristocratic Virginia family, and exhibited precocious writing talent. As a young writer, she published The Quick or the Dead?, which became a controversial bestseller; modernists derided the naive plot and theme, while traditional romanticists were scandalized by the sensual content. After a short marriage to Virginia lawyer John Armstrong Chanler ended, she met and married exiled Russian painter Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy and led a privileged life in America and E...