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# Wellington's letter to the French Commissioners, 26 June 1815

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It was common practice among some contemporary British sources to spell Napoleon's surname "Buonaparte", in the Italian style, during this period rather than "Bonaparte" in the French style.
Headquarters, 26th June 1815.— 10 P.M.
As Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington has only at this moment returned to his Quarters, he has only now received from Marshal Prince Blücher the letter of their Excellencies, and which their Excellencies had sent to the Prussian Outposts.
When the Field Marshal last heard from the Headquarters of the Allied Sovereigns, the 21st instant, their Majesties were at Heidelberg, and they must still lie in that direction. It must be obvious to their Excellencies that the Field Marshal can neither prevent nor aid their Excellencies in reaching their Majesties; but if he has it in his power, or if their Excellencies think proper to pass through the countries in which the troops are under his command, the Field Marshal begs they will let him know in what manner he can facilitate their journey.
The Field Marshal was not aware that any Officer commanding an Advanced Post had agreed verbally, or in any other manner, to a Suspension of Hostilities.
Since the 15th instant, when Napoleon Buonaparte [sic], at the head of the French Armies, invaded the dominions of the King of the Netherlands, and attacked the Prussian Army; the Field Marshal has considered his Sovereign, and those Powers whose Armies he commands, in a state of war with the Government of France; and he does not consider the Abdication of Napoleon Buonaparte of his usurped authority, under all the circumstances which have preceded and attended that measure, as the attainment of the object held out in the Declarations and Treaties of the Allies, which should induce them to lay down their arms.
The Field Marshal cannot consent therefore to any Suspension of Hostilities, however desirous he is of preventing the further effusion of blood.
As the only object on which their Excellencies desired to converse with the Field Marshal was the proposed Suspension of Hostilities : they will, probably, after the perusal of his sentiments and intentions, as above declared, consider any interview with him an useless waste of time; but, if their Excellencies should still do him the honour to desire to have an interview with him, the Field Marshal will be ready to meet them at the time and place they shall appoint.
The Field Marshal begs their Excellencies will receive the assurance of his high consideration.
* "Wellington."
# Wellington's letter to the French Commissioners, 29 June 1815

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It was common practice among some contemporary British sources to spell Napoleon's surname "Buonaparte", in the Italian style, during this period rather than "Bonaparte" in the French style.
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| Au Quartier Général du Maréchal Prince Blücher, ce 29 Juin, 1815. à 11½ heures du soir. | At the headquarters General Marshal Prince Blucher, 11:30 pm. June 29, 1815 |
| Messieurs, | Gentlemen, |
| J'ai l'honneur de vous faire savoir qu'ayant consulté le Maréchal Prince Blücher sur votre proposition pour un armistice, son Altesse est convenue avec moi, que, sous les circonstances actuelles, aucun armistice ne peut se faire, tant que Napoléon Buonaparte est à Paris, et en liberté; et que ses opérations sont en tel état qu'il ne peut pas les arrêter. | I have the honour to inform you that, having consulted the Marshal Prince Blücher on your proposal for an armistice, His Highness has agreed with me that under the current circumstances, no armistice can be implemented, as Napoleon Buonaparte is in Paris, and at liberty; and that [Blücher's] operations are at a stage where he can not stop them. |
| J'ai l'honneur d'être, &c. | I have the honour to be, &c. |
| Wellington | Wellington |
# Wellington to Blücher, 10:30 16 June 1815

Written on the heights behind Frasnes, 10:30, 16 June, 1815.
sources:
* Becke, Archibald Frank (1914), "Appendix II, number 18", 'Napoleon and Waterloo, vol. II, London: Keagan Paul, Trench, Trübner & company, p. 285, <https://archive.org/stream/cu31924071955037#page/n304/mode/1up>.
* Robinson (1905), Wellington's campaigns, Peninsula-Waterloo, 1808-15; also Moore's campaign of Corunna, for military students, vol. 3, London: H. Rees, p. facing 562, <https://archive.org/details/wellingtonscampa03robi>.
Becke notes that: this letter is given in facsimile by Robinson 1905, pp. 562–563. It was written in French (the lingua franca at the time). The handwriting has given rise to several differences of opinion; but Becke believed that the sense was as it is given below.
| The heights behind Frasnes | 10:30, 16 June, 1815. |
My dear Prince,
My army is disposed as follows:
    The Prince of Orange's Corps has a division here at Quatre Bras, the remainder are at Nivelles.
    The Reserve is now marching from Waterloo to Genappe, where it will arrive at midday.
    At the same hour the English Cavalry will have attained Nivelles.
    Lord Hill's Corps is at Braine-le-Comte.
I do not see many of the enemy in front of us, and I await the receipt of news from Your Highness, and the arrival of my troops, to decide on my operations for this day.
Nothing has been seen in the direction of Binche, nor on our right.
Your very Obedient Servant,
Wellington.
# Wells Fargo Company Express v. Ford

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United States Supreme Court
238 U.S. 503
Wells Fargo Company Express v. Ford
Argued: May 5, 1915. --- Decided: June 21, 1915
Messrs. H. M. Garwood and C. W. Stockton for plaintiffs in error.
No appearance for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Lamar delivered the opinion of the court:

## Notes

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# Wellington Evening Post/1906/Grand Prix De France

An article first published in the Evening Post on July 2, 1906 reporting the results of the 1906 French Grand Prix.
Automobile Race.
Grand Prix de France.
[Press Association.]
Paris, 1st July.
The Grand Prix de France automobile race was held over a circuit of 749 miles. It resulted as follows:—Renault No. 1 car, driven by Sisz, 12hr 14min, 1; Fiat No. 2 car, driven by Mazzari, 12hr 46min 26sec, 2; Bayard-Clement No. 1 car, driven by Clement, 12 hr 49min 46sec, 3.
The cars which filled first and third places are of French manufacture; the second car is Italian.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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# Wellington's letter to Davoust, 1 July 1815

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A reply to Davous's letter to Wellington and Blücher, 30 June 1815
Headquarters, July 1, 1815—10 a.m.
Monsieur le Marshal,
I have just received your Excellency's letter of the 30th June, in which your Excellency communicates to me the intelligence you have received of an Armistice having been concluded by General Frimont with Marshal the Duke of Albufera.
I have already made known, in writing, to the French Commissioners sent to the Allied Powers, and verbally, to the Commissioners sent to me, the reasons which have prevented me from suspending my operations; which reasons, I have cause to believe, are fully adopted by the Allies of my Sovereign, and of those whose Armies I have the honour of commanding.
I have every wish to prevent the further effusion of the blood of the brave troops under my command; but it must be upon the conditions which shall secure the re-establishment and the stability of the General Peace.
I have the honour to be, &c.,
Wellington
# Wells Bros Company of New York v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
254 U.S. 83
Wells Bros Company of New York v. United States
Argued: April 30, 1920. --- Decided: Nov 8, 1920
Messrs. A. R. Serven and Burt E. Barlow, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.
Mr. Assistant Attorney General Davis, for the United States.
Mr. Justice CLARKE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Woman of the Century/Mary R. P. Hatch

​HATCH, Mrs. Mary R. P., poet and story writer, born in the town of Stratford, N. H., 19th MARY R. P. HATCH. June, 1848. She is the daughter of Charles G. , and Mary Blake Platt. Her ancestors were English. The Blakes settled in Dorchester, Mass., in 1620, and the Platts in Stratford. Conn., the families presenting a long line of illustrious names, from Admiral Blake, the naval hero, to Senator Platt, who managed the Copyright Bill in Congress. The list includes the Blakes, Judsons and McLellans, of literary fame. Mrs. Hatch's life has been spent in the Connecticut valley. In childhood she possessed a quiet manner and a sensitive disposition, was a close observer, and a student of nature. She early developed scholarly and literary tastes. At the age of fifteen she left the common schools and attended the academy in Lancaster, eighteen miles from her home. There she studied the higher mathematics, rhetoric, Latin and French, and there her ability as a writer was discovered and recognized. From that time she contributed sketches on various subjects for the county papers, and articles under her pen-name, "Mabel Percy," from time to time appeared in the Portland "Transcript." "Peterson's Magazine." "Saturday Evening Post" and other papers and periodicals. Since then, under her true name, she has written for " Zion's Herald," Springfield "Republican," Chicago "Inter-Ocean," the "Writer," the "Epoch," "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" and others. After leaving school she became the wife of Antipas M. Hatch. Their family consists of two sons, and as the wife of an extensive farmer she has been a busy woman. Her management of her home has left her some time to devote to literature, and her versatility has enabled her to do creditable work in the wide realm of short stories, dialect sketches, essays and poems, grave and gay, society verses and verses in dialect "The Bank Tragedy," published serially in the Portland "Transcript" and issued in book form, was a great success. Other stories from her pen are "Quicksands," "The Missing Man" and "A Psychical Study."
# Woman of the Century/Mary Mathews Adams

​ADAMS, Mrs. Mary Mathews, poet, born 23rd October, 1840. She is of Irish birth and parentage, but having come to this country when she was a mere child, she may easily claim America as her mental birthplace. Her father was a devout Protestant, and her mother an ardent Catholic; but MARY MATHEWS ADAMS. with fine breeding and a sincere and tender affection between them, the religious inheritance of the sons and daughters of John Mathews and his wife is rich in faith and tolerance. Their American home was in Brooklyn, N. Y., and there Mary, their oldest daughter, was educated, mainly at Packer Institute, from which she passed into a graded school, where for nine years she was a successful teacher. Her well-equipped mind and her winsome personality proving a rare combination of endowments for the work. After that period of successful effort Miss Mathews was married to C. M. Smith, and for five years her life was passed in a western city. At the end of that time she returned to Brooklyn, a childless widow, and again entered her favorite field of labor. Her enthusiasm as a student, which she always has been, finds its best result in her Shakespearian study. She has for years gathered about her, in her own home and elsewhere, classes of ladies, and her method of leadership is at once unique and inspiring. The refined literary appreciation manifested in this work reveals itself in her poems. The "Epithalamium" is perhaps the best known. Her verse is largely lyrical, and her themes include romance, heroism, and religion. In 1883 she became the wife of A. S. Barnes, the well-known publisher. He lived but a short time, and in London, in 1890, Mrs. Barnes was married to Charles Kendall Adams, the President of Cornell University, and at once assumed a position of intellectual, social, and moral responsibility for which her special mental gifts, her cultivation and her noble ideals of manly and womanly character fit her in a marked manner. There she has opportunity to impress the height and largeness of her standards upon college students of both sexes, from all points of the country and remote lands. Mrs. Adams is one of the highest types of her race. That she has written less than the public craves is partly due to her own under-estimation of her poetic gifts, and partly because she lives a religion of true hospitality and is an earnest home-maker, which talent is more time-consuming than that of a housekeeper. Above and beyond all charms of pen and speech, she is a practical and sincerely tolerant woman who transforms much of the prose of everyday life into poetry by her devotion to all beautiful works and things.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Mortimer

​MORTIMER, Miss Mary, educator, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 2nd December, 1816, and died in Milwaukee, Wis., 14th July, 1877. Her parents came to the United States when she was five years old. When she was twelve, her father and mother died within a single week. Her education was received in the Geneva, N. Y., Seminary, where she completed her course of study in 1839. She then taught for several years in Geneva Seminary, in Brockport Collegiate Institute, and in Le Roy Seminary, now known as Ingham University. In 1848 she went to the new State of Wisconsin on a visit, and in 1849 she taught a private school in Ottawa, III. Miss Catherine Beecher, then on an educational tour in the West, became acquainted with her very remarkable power as a teacher, met her in Ottawa, laid great educational plans before her, and persuaded her to take up work as a helper in the carrying out of those plans. She began the work in 1850, in Milwaukee, Wis., in a school which Miss Beecher had adopted and adapted to her plans, afterwards named Milwaukee College. Remarkable success was attained by the faculty of that school, among whom Miss Mortimer was foremost. She spent four-and-a-half years, from 1859 to 1863, in the Baraboo Seminary, Wisconsin, there graduating three classes from a course identical with that of Milwaukee College, and, after a time spent in Boston, Mass., returned to Milwaukee College, in 1866, where she was principal until her resignation, in 1874. In 1871 she traveled extensively in Europe. Her home, "Willow Glen," in the suburbs of Milwaukee, was in her later years an ideal retreat. She gave courses of lectures on art and history to classes of women in Milwaukee and Baraboo, Wis , in Elmira, N. Y., Auburndale, Mass., and St. Louis. Mo. She was instrumental in founding an industrial school for girls in Milwaukee, and she was a leading spirit in originating the Woman's Club of Milwaukee. Her chief monument is Milwaukee College, to which she devoted the prime of her life. The Mary Mortimer Library in Milwaukee College and her Memoir by Mrs. M. B. Norton are among the tributes of pupils to the life and character of that remarkable woman.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Osburn Adkinson

​ADKINSON. Mrs. Mary Osburn, temperance reformer, born in Rush county, Ind., 28th July, 1843. Her husband, the Rev. L. G. Adkinson, D. D., is President of New Orleans University. She has illustrated what an earnest worker can accomplish in the fields lying within reach of one busied with the cares of domestic life. She is the daughter of Harmon Osburn, who was a prominent farmer in Rush county. Ind. Her mother was a woman of great force of character and often entertained ministers, teachers and other guests of refinement in her home. Miss Osburn was educated in Whitewater College, Centerville. Ind. She began her married life as a pastor's wife in Laurel, Ind. There, by teaching a part of the time, she supplemented the small salary received by her husband and added many valuable books to their library. Removing to Madison, she was persuaded to take a leading part in organizing the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that city. For ten or twelve years she did much successful work; she was four times unanimously elected president of the Madison district association, she was the association's delegate in 1883 to the State convention, and in 1884 to to the branch meeting in Kalamazoo, Mich. In 1873 she united with the temperance women of the city in the woman's crusade and has since been actively engaged in temperance work. She is now superintendent of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union among the colored people in the State of Louisiana and is working with much success. Many societies have been organized and hundreds of young people have taken the triple pledge of abstinence from intoxicating drink, tobacco and profanity. Mrs. Adkinson is also matron in New Orleans University and teacher of sewing and dressmaking. While thus active in philanthropic ​work, she has been eminently a "keeper at home." Of her family of five children, the oldest daughter, a graduate of Moore's Hill College, Indiana, is the wife of Dr. E. G. Conklin, of the chair of biology MARY OSBURN ADKINSON. in the Ohio Wesleyan University. The second daughter and son are teachers in New Orleans University, and a younger daughter and son are students in the same institution.
# Woman of the Century/Mary M. Howard

​MARY M. HOWARD. HOWARD, Miss Mary M., musician and musical educator, born in Batavia, N. Y. She received her musical education in New York, with S. B. Mills and William H. Sherwood for piano teachers and Frederick Archer and S. P. Warren as organ teachers. She began her career as church organist at fifteen years of age, and she has never been abroad. She is exclusively an American product. She taught three years in the New York State Institute for the Blind, in Batavia, and for two years was at the head of the musical department of Howard College. Fayette, Mo. For one year she held the position of director of the Batavia Philharmonic Club, an organization numbering eighty members. In 1887 she went to Buffalo, N. Y., and took the position of organist in the First Presbyterian Church, which she has retained ever since. She is the only woman who has ever held the place of organist in that church. In 1888 she opened in Buffalo a school of music, which has been the first institution of that kind to succeed in that city.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Noailles Murfree

​MURFREE, Miss Mary Noailles, novelist, horn in Grantlands. near Murfreesburough, Tenn., MARY NOAILLES MURFREE. in 1850. She is widely known by her pen-name. "Charles Egbert Craddock." She is the great granddaughter of Colonel Hardy Murfree, of Revolutionary fame, and her family have long been distinguished in the South. Her father was a brilliant lawyer before the Civil War, and a literary man. Mary was carefully educated. She was made lame in childhood by a stroke of paralysis, and, debarred from the active sports of youth, she became a student and reader. The Civil War reduced the fortunes of her family. After the conflict was ended, they removed to St. Louis, Mo., where they now reside. Mary began to busy herself in writing stories of life in the Tennessee mountains, where she had in youth been familiar with the people. She chose a masculine pen-name and sent her first productions to the "Atlantic Monthly." They were published, and at once inquiries were made concerning "Charles Egbert Craddock." She concealed her identity for several years. Her works have when very popular. They include "In the Tennessee Mountains." a volume of sketches (Boston. 1S841, "Where the Battle was Fought (1884), "Down the Ravine" (18S5). "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain" (1885), "In the Clouds" (1886), "The Story of Keedon Bluffs" (1887), and "The Despot of Broomsedge Cove" (1888). She has contributed much matter to the leading magazines of the day. Her work was supposed to be that of a man, from her pen-name and from the firm, distinct style of her writing She is a student of humanity, and her portraitures of the Tennessee mountaineers have very great value aside from the entertainment they furnish to the careless reader.
# Woman of the Century/Mary Putnam Jacobi

​JACOBI, Dr. Mary Putnam, physician, born in London, England, 31st August, 1842. She is a ​daughter of George P. Putnam, the well-known publisher. She came to the United States in youth. She studied in the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia, Pa., afterwards taking the course in the New York College of Pharmacy, of which institution she was the first woman graduate. In 1868 she went to Paris, France, where she was the first woman to be admitted to the Ecole de Medecin. She was graduated in that college in 1871. During the siege of Paris she corresponded for the New York "Medical Journal." In 1871 she became the wife of Dr. Abraham Jacobt, a native of Hartum, Westphalia, Germany, who studied in the universities of Greifswald, Bonn and Gottingen, and, having become involved in the German revolutionary movement, was imprisoned. He came to the United States and settled in New York, where he holds high rank in the medical fraternity. Three children were born to them. Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi was for twelve years dispensary physician in the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She served as professor of materia medica in the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, and later as professor in the New York post-graduate medical school. In 1876 she was elected president of the Association for the Advancement of the Medical Education of Women. She has written much on medical and scientilic subjects. She is the author of "The Question of Rest During Menstruation," an essay which won the Bovlston prize in Harvard University in 1876; "The Value of Life" (New York, 1879); "Cold Pack and Anaemia" (1880); "Studies in Endometritis" in the "American Journal of Obstetrics" (1885); the articles on "Infantile Paralysis" and "Pseudo-Muscular Hypertrophy" in "Pepper's Archives of Medicine," and "Hysteria, and Other Essays" (1888). She is interested in many reforms and charities. Her knowledge of medicine and all its allied sciences is profound and accurate. Her home is in New York City, where she has acquired an extensive practice. She stands in the front rank in her profession.