| Edmund Burke - 1882 - 776 páginas
...and presented in the name of the Queen of England by the British Legation. It bore a card with the inscription "Queen Victoria to the Memory of the late...President Garfield ; an expression of her sorrow, and her sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and the American nation." Another was a broken shaft of white roses... | |
| 1882 - 716 páginas
...and presented in the name of the Queen of England by the British Legation. It bore a card with the inscription "Queen Victoria to the Memory of the late...President Garfield ; an expression of her sorrow, and her sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and the American nation." Another was a broken shaft of white roses... | |
| British and foreign sailors' society - 1879 - 398 páginas
...touching words : — " Queen Victoria to the memory of the late President Garfield ; an express1on of her sorrow, and sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and the American nation." And as the funeral passed through some six hundred miles of mourners, and the wreath was seen, the... | |
| 1881 - 792 páginas
...the bier of the departed, with the inscription : " From Queen Victoria to the memory of the departed President Garfield. An expression of her sorrow and sympathy with Mrs Garfield and with the whole American nation." She ordered her court, to go into mourning for six days, and sent... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1880 - 514 páginas
...there she waited in the presence of death. The casket was covered with flowers ; and various floraf designs of exquisite workmanship — all the tributes...coffin by Him who was "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;" and that she took leave of her departed husband assured that the all-sufficient One would... | |
| Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1881 - 614 páginas
...an exquisite specimen of the florist's art, composed of white roses, smilax and stephanotis. It was accompanied by a mourning card bearing the following...sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and the American nation. " Sept. 22, 1881," By half-past one, PM, on Friday, the 23d, arrangements for the funeral ceremonies... | |
| William Ralston Balch - 1881 - 784 páginas
...rotunda. On the foot of the coffin rested an immense wreath of white rosebuds ; attached to it was a card bearing the following inscription : " Queen Victoria,...sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and the ' American nation." The wreath was placed upon the casket by Mr. Hitt, Assistant-Secretary of State. It was prepared by... | |
| Russell H. Conwell - 1881 - 430 páginas
...art was contributed by the British minister by special order of Queen Victoria, and bore a card with the following inscription : — Queen Victoria to...sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and the American nation. September 22, 1 88 1. The funeral services were very simple and unceremonious, and in accordance with... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 738 páginas
...orders telegraphed from the Queen, and the accompanying card bore the following touching and significant inscription : " QUEEN VICTORIA, TO THE MEMORY OF THE...SYMpATHY WITH MRS. GARFIELD AND THE AMERICAN NATION." " SEPTEMBER 22, 1881." The interior of the rotunda was hung in black, though not so heavily as to produce... | |
| William Ralston Balch - 1881 - 626 páginas
...foot of the coffin S££f'/C£S AT THE CAPITOL. rested an immense wreath of white rosebuds, with a card bearing the following inscription : QUEEN VICTORIA,...An expression of her sorrow and sympathy with Mrs. Garneld and the American Nation. It was prepared at the British Legation by telegraphic direction of... | |
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