1809 Child's Book TWENTY-ONE LETTERS

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Twenty-One Letters Written to a near relative at School. (No. 11.) By the Reverend John Newton, Late Rector of St. Mary Woolnorth, London. Published by the American Tract Society. The author's introduction is dated "January 1, 1809," with no other publication date. However, a previous owner has inked in the presumed date , "1809", on the title page, along with the time period, i.e. "1779-1783," that these letters span. The book measures 5" X 2 3/4". It has 60 pages, bound in brown paper wraps (covers). Nice. clean interior, with three little woodcuts. A few pages show brown spots. Edges rubbed, a few external scrapes. The letters (1779-1783) are written by the Reverend Newton to his young daughter who's away at boarding school. They give homely details of eighteenth-century life, as well as references to such historical events as the American Revolution: "When you were a little girl , we used, when you came home from N----, to place you with your back against the wall, by the fireplace in the parlour, and compare you with your former marks, that we might notice how much taller you grew from one half-year to another.According to present appearances, you are likely to be sufficiently tall, and to shoot up apace. I need not measure, for I can perceive by a glance of the eye, that you are grown every time you return to us. But I am read more

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