Letters from New-York

Title: Letters from New-York

Author: Child, L. [Lydia] Maria

Publication: New-York: Charles S. Francis and Company, 1843.

Description: First edition of this collection of essays about New York City and related social commentary by reformer Lydia Maria Child, covering a wide range of topics from women's rights, animal magnetism, street musicians, the Jewish and Irish communities, a Black minister named Julia Pell, abolition, and more. Bound in full publisher's purple cloth over boards, stamped in blind and gilt. 7.75 x 5 inches; ix, [3], 276 pages. From the collection of Arthur Williams Hall (1873–1952) of Massachusetts, bibliophile and manufacturer of laboratory equipment, with his neat pencil notes on front pastedown; thence by descent through three generations. Binding with moderate rubbing and edgewear and a rather sunned spine; interior with moderate foxing, especially to flyleaves, title page, and terminal leaf. Good. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Indigenous rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Many of the essays first appeared in the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Reference: Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 3144.