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Also, there is the social side to being an author. Friends and neighbors at home gave her a party in the Jane Thornton house, ■where 'George Washington really slept, not once, but several times. It was a “surprise’' party, but how can you have an unannounced social function for a celebrity in a small community? Vou can’t. And there were some who were ‘afraid that Miss Hite's friends from the mountains might crowd the party. They didn’t, and they would not have known her by her (proper given name of Mary Elizabeth, anyway. ------ In Richmond there was a party, too, for Dietz press authors, including the majestic Douglas •Southall Freeman and an aging James Branch Cabell, a somewhat different social historian.
Miss Hite, very obviously likes ipeople and history. She approves of the Williamsburg restorations,' but she is equally at home in industrial Thomasville and WinstonSalem where Colonial Dames and Daughters of the Revolution are’ glad to meet and talk to one of the best informed of Virginia his* torians. .
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