![[Item #45076] Letters from New York. Second Series. Maria CHILD, ydia.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45076.jpg?auto=webp&v=1563477292)
Letters from New York. Second Series
New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1845. First Edition. First State (per BAL). Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, peach endpapers; xii,[13]-287,[1],[16]pp. Light wear at extremities with brief exposure, else Very Good to Near Fine. This copy in variant cloth binding not noted in the BAL, in brown "V" cloth with peach endpapers.
Second collection of New York stories first published in the Standard and the Boston Courier, revised here with the editorial aid of her friend and fellow-abolitionist Ellis Gray Loring. Much of the overtly abolitionist material was excised for a broader readership, though at least three letters are devoted to the movement, as well as one to prison reform. Overall, however, the second series "reflects the shift in Child's interests from social reform to mysticism and the arts" (Carolyn L. Karcher, "The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child" (1994), p. 316). BAL 3152; WRIGHT I 529.
Price: $150.00
