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Who was Buchanan's valentine? Would you believe 'A.H.S.'?
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Who sent President James Buchanan an ardent valentine saying the
correspondent "loves U well''?
How about Alexander Stephens?
Well, didn't that come out of left field?
And doesn't that reopen a can of worms?
And how many questions can a Scribbler column ask before it
settles down and explains itself?
OK, here's the basis for this strange line of questioning.
On the day before Valentine's Day, the Scribbler published the
text of a poem sent to Buchanan at the White House on Valentine's Day
in 1858.
The poem was printed in calligraphy at the center of an
intricately cut piece of white paper and ...
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The "Plyant" Discourse of Wycherley's The Country Wife.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...and I would like to subject William Wycherley's The Country Wife to just...Dryden, Some of the words in Wycherley's play are pliant in that they...intended effect of the play: "Wycherley maintains a complete disjunction...
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The Feminist Voices in Restoration Comedy: The Virtuous Women in the Play-Worlds of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...Hill completes his major exegesis of political awareness in English poetry during the imperial period from Shakespeare to William Wordsworth. In A Manner of Correspondence: A Study of the Scriblerus Club, Patricia Carr Bruckmann studies the circumstances...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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A PAWN IN DI'S GAME; Diana used William as a weapon to antagonise Charles. She axed his beloved nanny in a jealous fit, and told him to shun the limelight while basking in it herself. Is it any wonder he now finds it hard to trust people?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...of our future King AS PRINCE William and Diana stood outside the...significance of the occasion. William, nearly 15, was about to...and one of her chefs, Mervyn Wycherley. What infuriated her even...out by Tiggy Legge-Bourke, William and Harry's unofficial nanny...
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William, Harry intervene to lift ban on Diana's friend.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
; William, Harry intervene to lift...August 29 (PTI) Prince William and Prince Harry have overruled...Simon Solari and chef Mervyn Wycherley and friends Lucia Flecha and...on the request of Princes William and Harry, who felt he exploited...
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Bacon please, chef ... love Diana ; Royal cook sells off notes written by the princess
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...signed off a note praising Mr Wycherley for their honeymoon feasts...cheeky birthday card to Mr Wycherley from young princes William and Harry, will go under...carefully signed their names. Mr Wycherley described the moment Diana...
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The Gentleman Dancing-Master.(Theater Review)
Magazine article from: Daily Variety
; ...Theater Company presentation of a play in two acts by William Wycherley. Directed by Gus Kaikkonen. Set, Susan Zeeman...still delivers quite a kick. Written in 1672 by William Wycherley, that bawdy master of Restoration comedy, the play...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Love lost in the woods.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...Lust for money...Diana Kent and Louis Hilyer in William Wycherley's Love In A Wood That randy old poet the Earl of...Shakespeare Company's new production of Love In A Wood, William Wycherley's smuttily entertaining comedy. Lust In A Wood...
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Waylay'd by wordsTheatre
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Disputation JEWEL of our high comedy as William Wycherley may rank, it is on the strength...for it in 1671 since it earned Wycherley an affair with Charles II's...maybe clarity is the last thing Wycherley wanted. Night transforms the...
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Charles and the four-minute warning, by his personal chef; Be my Valentine: One of Diana's cards to the chef.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...got in from hunting,' Mr Wycherley said. 'His eggs had to be...boiled eggs for salads.' Mr Wycherley, 59, has spoken of his life...pregnant with both Princes William and Harry. In one note she...friend the tomato! D.' Mr Wycherley said Charles would often pick...
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Theatre: Don't go down to the woods today - it's bloody murder THEATRE Titus Andronicus BAC, London Love in a Wood Swan, Stratford- upon-Avon Suip! Tricycle, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...out Love in a Wood. That's William Wycherley's first Restoration comedy...revival. Getting to grips with Wycherley's convoluted storyline is like...seething parklife after hours. Wycherley's repartee - albeit over...
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