A Letter From Thomas Bailey Aldrich to Bayard Taylor: Auburn, N.Y., August 20, 1865

by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

First Edition Thus

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Book Description

New York: Uphill Press, 1967. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Gift inscription, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows minor age toning, else clean. Black paper boards, cream paper onlay, black ink lettering and decorative elements, decorative endpages. 12mo. 9pp. Illus. (b/w plate). One of 200 copies. From the library of Susan Mary Alsop. Born Susan Mary Jay in Rome in 1918, she was the daughter of Peter Augustus Jay (and Susan Alexander McCook) and granddaughter of Augustus Jay (and Emily Astor Kane), both statesmen, legates and/or ambassadors (in Europe, Asia and South America). The Jays, a Huguenot family, produced John Jay, co-author of the Federalist Papers, Foreign Secretary and the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Many of the volumes from her library were from that of her father and grand father and are so inscribed (as noted). Susan Mary [Jay] Alsop, in addition to being one of the great political hostesses in Washington's circles, was an author in her own right, producing a noted biography of Vita Sackville-West's mother, ÒLady SackvilleÓ (1978); and also ÒYankees at the Court: The First Americans in ParisÓ (1982), and ÒThe Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815Ó (1984). Inscribed "For Susan Mary Alsop with affection. AH". Scarce in its original glassine DJ and in such exceptional condition.

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