INSCRIBED to WCB'S NIECES
Thirty Poems.
New York: D. Appleton, 1864.
Price: $750.00
About the item
222 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED to WCB'S NIECES. Original brown cloth. Spine ends worn, joint scuffed. Very good. BAL 1682.
Item #305649
Inscribed on the flyleaf in the poet’s hand “For Mary and Olivia Fairchild with their Aunt Bryant’s love — March 16th, 1864”
With a note from a Bryant descendant mentioning the family genealogy “Frances Fairchild (Mrs. W. C.) Bryant had four brothers, any one of whom may have been the father of Mary and Olivia Fairchild …”.
