1813 "Spring advanced, and the marriage day was appointed." "Nature was adorned with the bridal ornaments of spring" "Fleecy summer clouds ..." Theodore has not yet enlisted "... weary summer had lapsed into the fallow arms of autumn" After father's remarriage: "the cool breezes of autumn had changed to the hoarse murmuring gales of winter" 1814 "the mild and salubrious breezes of spring had succeeded to the blustering gales of winter" Father's birthday [August 1814: burning of Washington] [December 1814: Treaty of Ghent] [December 1814-January 1815: Hartford Convention] "... taken up their residence in the city for the winter" 1815 [January 1815: battle of New Orleans] War is over; celebration of peace "winter's snow was passing from the face of nature" "verdant scenery of spring" "showers of April had cleared the atmosphere" Father's birthday Alida leaves for tour of New York state: "The summer was past its meridian" "The number of travellers this summer were unusually great" 1816 After death of Alida's father: "at the commencement of the ensuing spring" Theodore returns Alida: Sources Abbreviated titles of the most frequently cited works are given here in [brackets]. Unless otherwise noted, the quoted edition was picked simply because it was the most readily available; it may or may not have been the edition used by the author. All [_sic_] notations were added by the transcriber; all brackets in _Alonzo and Melissa_ are in the original. Sources that are used only once are identified as they occur in the text. _Non-Fiction_ Karl Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: _Travels through North America, during the years 1825 and 1826_. Translation published 1828. [Abbreviated "Travels"] Chapters XXIV-XXVII inclusive, except the poetry, are taken from this book. See beginning of chapter XXIV for more information. John Warner Barber: _Interesting Events in the History of the United States ..._ (exact title varies). First edition 1827; later editions include 1828 and 1834, with reprints of each. Details of wording point to the 1828 edition as the source. The segments dealing with the war of 1812 are quoted extensively: "Second War with Great Britain"; the battles of Queenstown, Lake Erie, Niagara and Lake Champlain; Death of Tecumseh; the Hartford Convention; "Piracies in the West Indies". Nathaniel Dwight: _Sketches of the lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence_. First Edition 1830; quotations from 1840 edition (reprint of 1830). [Abbreviated "Lives of Signers"] Used primarily for character descriptions. Most are applied to male characters in the novel, but one passage is inserted into a description of Dolly Madison. With one exception, all selections are taken from representatives of Northern states.