Nancy Shippen Her Journal Book.
From Eleanor Roosevelt’s Library
[Roosevelt, Eleanor]. Armes, Ethel, ed. Nancy Shippen Her Journal Book. The international romance of a young lady of fashion of colonial Philadelphia with letters to her and about her. Illustrated with portraits, facsimiles and prints. Philadelphia/London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1935.
8vo.; color frontispiece and nineteen additional illustrations throughout; blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt; spine rubbed.
Boxed together with:
Typed letter signed, “Ethel Armes,” to Mrs. Roosevelt, November 25, 1935, on one leaf of typing paper, four paragraphs, from “Study Room 39/Library of Congress/ Washington, D.C.,” addressed to “Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt/ The White House.”
First edition of this memoir rescued from obscurity by a female American history scholar. From the library of Eleanor Roosevelt, with her bookplate on the front pastedown, the small round printed “estate of Eleanor Roosevelt” label noting this as item number 775 in the library (which is also noted in white on the spine), and with letter of presentation from Armes sketching the history of its publication. While working on a book on Stratford, for which FDR had composed a foreword for The Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Armes “discovered by a fortunate accident the journals and letters of Nancy Shippen, thus brought to light and here presented for the first time.”
…this book, in which Nancy Shippen, daughter of Alice Lee of Stratford and granddaughter of Thomas Lee, its builder, tells her own story in words vividly reflecting the historic and picturesque period in which she lived, … is my personal venture, and this first copy I present to you.
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