[Rarebooks] FS: Connecticut girl's handwritten essays, 1875

[Bob Petrilla]

Breed, Carrie C. GROUP OF EIGHT (8) HANDWRITTEN ESSAYS AND FIVE (5)
LITERARY EXCERPTS, BY THIS SCHOOLGIRL OF PARKER ACADEMY, WOODBURY,
CONNECTICUT, 1875-1879. Original manuscripts. The 13 manuscripts constitute
about 36 octavo pages of material, written in ink by a neat hand, and all
signed by Carrie C. Breed. Essay titles are: The Culture of House Plants;
Influence; A Day in the World; House-cleaning; Politeness; Spring;
Hospitality; and Benevolence. The literary excerpts, copied for penmanship
with pencilled corrections, are: Scenes of Childhood; My Beth (from "Little
Women"); In the Garret (from "Little Women"); Filial Trust; and What I Live
For.  Very Good.   $150.00

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