FLORA'S DIAL: CONTAINING A FLOWER DEDICATED TO EACH DAY OF THE YEAR, AND AN APPROPRIATE POETIC SENTIMENT FOR EACH FLOWER by JOHN WESLEY HANSON - 1846

BOSTON: JONATHAN ALLEN, B.B. MUSSEY, 1846 RARE BOOK, DARK BROWN COVER, GOLD FLOWER DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, OUTSIDE OF SPINE VERY TOP MISSING, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT IN FADED PENCIL AND DATE 1846. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. GOLD TRIM PAGE EDGES, FRONTISPIECE IS TWO PAGES BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS PLATES AND DESIGN. EACH DAY OF THE YEAR HAS A FLOWER LISTED, MEANING AND A BREIF CLIP OF POETRY FROM WELL KNOW POETS. NICE INDEX IN BACK. VERY NICE SMALL BOOK FOR THE FLOWER AND POETRY LOVER. John Wesley Hanson D.D. (1823–1901) was an American Universalist minister and a notable Universalist historian advancing the claim that Universalism was the belief of early Christianity. He was born at Boston. He is also notable for his eyewitness accounts of his time as chaplain to one of the Unattached Companies Massachusetts Volunteer Militia during the American Civil War and for publishing his own New Testament "Hanson's edited New Testament" (1885), which was a revision of the English Revised Version with "baptism" changed for "immersion" and other changes. He was the eldest of five siblings. His younger sister was Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825–1911) wife of William Stevens Robinson (1818–1876), social reformers in Malden, Massachusetts. In 1845 he arrived in Wentworth, New Hampshire as Universalist minister. In the 1860s he was chaplain to the Sixth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers. In the 1870s he went as a Universalist missionary to Britain, becoming the pastor of St. Paul's Universalist Church, Glasgow, Scotland. He then became minister of the Universalist New Covenant Church of Chicago, where he worked on his New Testament. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.