Title: The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52. Being a Series of Twenty-three Letters from Dame Shirley to her Sister in Massachusetts Author: Shirley, Dame [Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith] Place: San Francisco Publisher: Thomas C. Russell Date: 1922 Description: xlvii, [5], 350, [1] pp. With synopsis of the letters, foreword, etc., by Thomas C. Russell. Illustrated with black-and-white plates from old prints, with tissue-. 23.2x15 cm (9¼x6"), cloth-backed boards. No. 148 of 200 numbered copies on Exeter book-paper. Signed (initials) by Thomas C. Russell on limitation page. Written by Louise Clappe to her sister, 1851-2, as she accompanied her husband to Rich Bar on the Fea the r River; first published in the "Pioneer Magaz in e," 1854-5, under the pseudonym Dame Shirley . Accord in g to J. Gregg Layne of the Zamorano 80, the y present "an entirely different picture of the conditions at the m in es from that ord in arily found in books Lot Amendments Condition: Spine lightly rubbed, a few scratches to edges of text block, frontispiece loose at bottom; near fine. Item number: 256767
Title: The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52. Being a Series of Twenty-three Letters from Dame Shirley to her Sister in Massachusetts Author: Shirley, Dame [Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith] Place: San Francisco Publisher: Thomas C. Russell Date: 1922 Description: xlvii, [5], 350, [1] pp. With synopsis of the letters, foreword, etc., by Thomas C. Russell. Illustrated with black-and-white plates from old prints, with tissue-. 23.2x15 cm (9¼x6"), cloth-backed boards. No. 148 of 200 numbered copies on Exeter book-paper. Signed (initials) by Thomas C. Russell on limitation page. Written by Louise Clappe to her sister, 1851-2, as she accompanied her husband to Rich Bar on the Fea the r River; first published in the "Pioneer Magaz in e," 1854-5, under the pseudonym Dame Shirley . Accord in g to J. Gregg Layne of the Zamorano 80, the y present "an entirely different picture of the conditions at the m in es from that ord in arily found in books Lot Amendments Condition: Spine lightly rubbed, a few scratches to edges of text block, frontispiece loose at bottom; near fine. Item number: 256767
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