Sketch of Connecticut, forty years since.

Description

Main Author

Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.

Related Names

Lathrop, Jerusha, 1717-1805.

Language(s)

English

Published

Hartford: : Oliver D. Cooke & Sons., 1824.

Subjects

Norwich (Conn.) > Norwich (Conn.) / Description and travel.
Connecticut > Connecticut / Social life and customs.
Connecticut > Connecticut / Description and travel.

Note

First and last leaves are blanks.
"A descriptive work ... tracing primitive habits and traditions, with some intermingling of fiction. The scene is among the wild and beautiful regions of my native place [Norwich]; and the object of its construction was to embalm the memory and virtues of an ancient lady, my first and most beloved benefactress" [Mrs. Jerusha Lathrop]--Sigourney, Letters of life 1866, p. 328-329.

Physical Description

[4], 278, [2] p. ; 20 cm. (12mo in 6s)

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