AFTER NOONTIDE

by White, Margaret E

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1888. Hardcover; 4.5x6.5 inches; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate `Presented by Frederick W. Putnam'; ink name/date inside front cover: `F. W. Putnam / Nov. 19 - 1909'; spine ends worn; cover tips quite bumped; contents clean; binding tight; otherwise condition good.. index + 2pp. book ads. Hopeful, forward-looking aphorisms, short passages from essays, & bits of poetry, contemplate the onset of old age (65)--by Browning, Lydia Child, Cicero, George Eliot, Holmes, W.S. Landor, Lowell, Martineau, Whittier, & many others. Compiled by Margaret Eliot White (1823-1903), daughter of artist Chester Harding (1792-1866). ||| Dr. Frederick W[ard] Putnam (1839-1915) was Director of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, especially concerned with mound-builders of Little Miami Valley, Scioto Valley, Fort Hill, & The Great Serpent mounds. He concluded Mound-builders had originated in Mexico.