Postcard from Amelie Rives to Mrs. Raub [manuscript], 1893 July 5.

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Postcard from Amelie Rives to Mrs. Raub [manuscript], 1893 July 5.

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Rives sends a brief poem "Thoughts in illness" and sympathizes with her on her affliction noting that she has been ill a long time with acute rheumatism herself.

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Raub, Mrs.,

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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...