The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Mrs. Ross Takes a Trip to New Haven

Ross, Mehitabel. "Mrs. Ross Takes a Trip to New Haven." Vanity Fair, August 17, 1861, 82.
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Type
magazine
Genre
letter to the editor
Abstract

The narrator breaks her own rule and dons a hoop-skirt to go see the boys on the battlefield. This turns her melancholy, but a boat ride cheers her soul.