| John Thomson Faris - 1918 - 480 str.
...found no great comfort in the White House, either. " To assist us in this great castle," she wrote, " and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly...one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain. ... If they will put me up some bells, and let me have wood enough to keep... | |
| Thomas Nelson Page - 1923 - 262 str.
...there was difficulty in heating it, the main stairway had not been built, nor the bells hung. To assist us in this great castle and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanted . . . not one single one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain.... | |
| John Thomson Faris - 1925 - 460 str.
...comfort for them." Her description of the grand house was not more flattering: "To assist us in the great Castle, and render less attendance necessary,...one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain. ... If they will put me up some bells, and let me have wood enough to keep... | |
| 1918 - 968 str.
...were not secured, for Mrs. Adams wrote in her famous letter, on her arrival in November : To assist us in this great castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are almost wholly wanting . . . We have not the least fence, yard, or other convenience without, and the... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1913 - 248 str.
...clothes and in which letter she also says, "To assist us in this great castle and render less assistance necessary, bells are wholly wanting not one single...one being hung through the whole house and promises are all you can obtain. This is so great an inconvenience that I know not what to do nor how to do.... | |
| Don Stallings, Erik Grant Bennett, Lynn Stallings - 2007 - 68 str.
...situation is beautiful. The house is made habitable, but there is not a single apartment finished. Bells are wholly wanting, not one single one being hung through the whole house. The great unfinished audienceroom I made a drying-room of, to hang up the clothes in. Today a servant... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1900 - 376 str.
...we are obliged to keep to secure us from daily agues is another very cheering comfort. "To assist, us in this great castle, and render less attendance...one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain. This is so great an inconvenience, that I know not what to do, or how to do."... | |
| Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1913 - 236 str.
...clothes and in which letter she also says, "To assist us in this great castle and render less assistance necessary, bells are wholly wanting not one single...one being hung through the whole house and promises are all you can obtain. This is so great an inconvenience that I know not what to do nor how to do.... | |
| L. B. Adams - 1999 - 390 str.
...obliged to keep to secure us from daily agues is another very cheering comfort. To assist us in the great castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not a single one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain. This is so great... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 226 str.
...about thirty servants to attend... and perform the ordinary business of house and stables.... To assist us in this great castle, and render less attendance...one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain. Despite all those woods, the president and his wife didn't have enough wood... | |
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