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bricks can be seen encased in the concrete to serve as fragmentary relics of the past. (Source unknown)
Mrs. Elizabeth Poitevent Nicholson with her husband George Nicholson owned and ran the New Orleans Daily Picayune. She was known as "Pearl Rivers". About the time (1892) of her master poem "Hagaar" was receiving nationwide acclaim and while staying at her Waveland home "Fort Nicholson" she paid a call on the young editor of the Echo. (From a newspaper clipping of no credentials in the HCHS VF)
One of the most noted residents of Waveland, is Mr. Eliza J. Nicholson - better known under the non de plume of "Pearl Rivers" - the proprietor of the New Orleans Daily Picayune, one of the most popular and powerful journals in the South. Mrs. Nicholson's summer home, called "Fort Nicholson" is situated on the beach of Waveland, near Nicholson Avenue. Over-looking Bay St. Louis. The spacious house is of modern architecture, with broad galleries surrounding, and is in the center of a beautiful lawn, with winding, shell bedded drives on either side. We illustrate a nook in the handsome parlor of the Fort Nicholson residence, showing a pair of magnificent vases direct from china, the only pair of the kind to be found in the United States. Mrs. Nicholson's girlhood life was spent in a rambling old country house, near the brown waters of Pearl River. She was the only child on the place; a lonesome child, with the heart of a poet, and she took to the beautiful Southern woods and made them her sanctuary. A born poet, it was not long before she found her voice and began to sing, full and sweet, the fairy stories of the woods. These songs reached out in the world and the wise and gray heads of other poets were listeners to the little one's songs of nature. She became a contributor to the New York Home Journal, and other papers of high standing, and the name of "Pearl Rivers" - the other name of the editor and proprietor of the Picayune - is one that is held dear by the many who have read her exquisite verse.
She is the poet laureate of the birds and flowers of the South. Her poems and fantasies of the birds and flowers of the pine scented Mississippi woodlands are the very airy ephemera and cobweb daintiness of poetic thought -so dainty are some of them that they might have been etched with a thorn on the petal of a dog rose bloom. "Pearl Rivers" first published article was accepted by Mr. John W. Overall, now editor of the York Mercury, first published article was accepted by Mr. John W. Overall, now editor of the New York Mercury, from whom she received the confirmation of her own hope that she was born to be a writer. While still living in the country the free, luxurious life of the daughter of a wealthy Southern gentleman, Miss Poitevant received an invitation from the editor of the Picayune to come to New Orleans as the literary editor of his paper. A newspaper