[4], 315 pages, [1] leaf of plates illustrations 19 cm
Type:
Books
Gift books
Place:
United States
Massachusetts
Boston
Date:
1853
19th century
Notes:
"At the 1839 [Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society] fair, [Maria Weston] Chapman debuted The Liberty Bell, an annual gift book that she edited and sold at the fairs"--Oxford
Bound in green Z cloth with gilt stamped Liberty Bell device on front cover within blind stamped decorative borders; title and decorations gilt stamped on spine; edges gilt trimmed; yellow endpapers
Includes an unsigned poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe
With an additional engraved t.p. signed "J. R. Foster." Preliminary p.[4] numbered viii
BAL, 19386 (Stowe)
BAL, 8215 (Higginson)
Faxon, F.W. Literary annuals, p. 46
Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 5882
Oxford comp. women's writing U.S., p. 162
Thompson, R. Annuals, p. 82-90, 135
NMAFRU copy 39088018649392 gift of Charles A. Beyah.
Contents:
Henrietta, the bride / Harriet Martineau -- Petra; or, a song of the desert / E. Foxton -- A breeze from Lake Ontario / Caroline Healey Dall -- The slave mother / Edwin Chapman -- Personality / Charles K. Whipple -- The cathedral / Lucy Sanford -- Liberty, sectional. Slavery, national. / William I. Bowditch -- True greatness, Thomas Clarkson / Daniel Ricketson -- Lettre / O. Lafayette -- Letter / O. Lafayette -- The morning mist / T.W. Higginson -- The approaching crisis / Richard Hildreth -- Sonnet / James Hurnard -- Webster / George F. Talbot -- The prayer of Moses granted / Henrietta Sargent -- Am I my brother's keeper? / T.W. Higginson -- In memory of C.S. / Anne Warren Weston -- Pauperism and slavery / O.B. Frothingham -- Commerce of Hayti / M. Dorvelas-Dorval -- Nan's lot in life / Harriet Martineau -- The young sailor / Maria Weston Chapman -- Lettre / N. Tourgueneff -- A more excellent way / Samuel May, Jr. -- The voice of freedom / R.C. Waterston -- The sculptor of the torrid zone / Maria Weston Chapman -- La religion d'abolition / M. Ernest Legouve -- Daniel Webster / Wendell Phillips -- Lines after a winter of severe storms -- L'inconsequence republicaine / M. Remusat -- Fetichism / Edmund Quincy -- To Louis Kossuth / Wm. Lloyd Garrison -- The bell / J.P. Lesley
