Description: Rare 1939 "Elizabeth Lloyd and the Whittiers"Editor: Thomas Franklin Currier1st Ed, Signed and inscribed by T.Franklin Currier, "With broken wrist this is the best I can do to hope you may find a few moments of pleasure in this little volume" dated Dec 4, 1939 John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.John Wittier was called to Philadelphia in 1838 to conduct and anti-slavery paper. Cousins introduced Whittier to a lively group of young people in the City. Elizabeth Lloyd belonged to this circle of friends, was a Quakeress and writer in her own right, and began a lifelong series of letters to John and his cousins. The book reflects the life of young people in Philadelphia in the ant-slavery days and depicts the life-long frienship between Whittier and Ms. Lloyd.pp. 1468 1/2 " x 5 3/4 "Fair condition overall, binding is intact, the cover are slightly damaged at the cornerspages are all in good condition
Price: 40 USD
Location: Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Inscribed
Author: Edited by Thomas Franklin Currier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Topic: Anti-slavery and the Quakers in the 1840s
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Character Family: John Greenleaf Whittier
