LETTER: Autograph letter signed to James Munrow & Co., Boston publishers.
FARRAR, Eliza (1791-1870). Popular lady's advice author thanks publisher of another. Autograph Letter Signed (third person, twice), 1p (lettersheet), 7'4" X 9". Cambridge, MA, 1845 August 7. Very good. Faintly age toned.
The wife of Harvard mathematics professor John Farrar (1779-1853) was herself well known throughout Boston and Cambridge intellectual circles, the noted author of The Children's Robinson Crusoe (1830), The Story of Lafayette as Told by a Father to His Children (1832), Recollections of Seventy Years (1865) and by far the most important The Young Lady's Friend (1836) -- an important book of advice popular throughout the U.S. and England and in print until 1880. Addressed to James Munroe & Co., Boston publishers. In 1845 this firm published Anna U. Russell and William Russell's The Young Ladies Elocutionary Reader, a popular reader reprinted a number of times.
Writes Farrar, "Mrs. Farrar returns her best thanks to the compiler & publisher of 'The Young Ladies Elocutionary Reader' for the neat volume they have sent her & especially for the honor they have done her in quoting from one of her books. Mrs. Farrar has long valued very highly the accomplishment of good reading & she rejoices to see this aid to its attainment & hopes that the directions of so able a teacher as Mr. Russell will be generally read & attended to." The Russell books features Farrar's "Conversation" on pages 209-211, "Fashion in Dress" on pages 237-240 and "The Useful and the Ornamental" on pages 247-249. Most unusual and desirable.
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