Eva March Tappan. Letters from Colonial Children

Tappan, Eva March. Letters from Colonial Children. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. First Edition. [10979] Red publisher's cloth decorated in black & gilt, 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, light soil, tight. Frontispiece "The Landing at Jamestown," xiii, [1], 319 clean pp. with many b/w plates; the boards a bowed somewhat. Very good. Hardcover. A fictional account of letters to and from children in the American colonies. Examples: A Letter written by Will Newton, an English boy in Virginia, to a boy friend in England; A Letter written by Henri Lamotte in Canada to his little brother Guillaume in France; A Letter written at Plymouth by John Billington to his Grandmother in England; A Letter written by Timothy Holden of Pennsylvania to his Cousin Henry in England. Eva March Tappan (1854-1930), a native of Massachusetts. She graduated from Vassar College (1875), taught Latin and German at Wheaton College (1875-1880), was the associate principal at the Raymond Academy in Camde