[Rarebooks] FS: Schoolgirl manuscripts, Woodbury, CT, 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. 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 condition.      $125.00

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