Clapp, Henry Jr.. "How I Came to Be Married [From Harper's Weekly]." New-York Saturday Press. (1859-7-23).
Type
newspaper
Genre
commentary
Abstract
Clapp discusses his own mortality and his preoccupation with his faults, which keeps him in a "state of constant dissatisfaction." Clapp notes that his continual search for something new and better actually led him to his wife.