Wright, Henry C. A Kiss for a Blow: or, A Collection of Stories for Children; showing them How to Prevent Quarreling. Boston: B. B. Mussey, 1842. First Edition.[10228]
Black blindstamped cloth, spine in gilt, backstrip sometime repaired, 6 1/4 x 4 inches, corners & spine ends worn through. Wood engraved frontispiece of a schoolroom scene, a girl embracing a boy. 180 pp., foxing, short tear in the margins of the preface, a bit shaken. Fair. Hardcover.
Chapters full of stories illustrating the following: Who is mine Enemy?; How Fights Begin; Costs of Fights among Children; Sure Way to Prevent all Wars and Fightings.
Henry Clarke Wright (1797-1870), b. Sharon, CT; d. Pawtucket, RI. Wright was passionate about radical causes, advocating for the abolition of slavery and in earlier years, for non-violence. He was appointed an agent of the American Peace Society in 1836, afterwards working with William Lloyd Garrison, writing columns for The Liberator. Although he claimed to hold to pacifist principles, his "Natick Resolution" of 1859 insisted that abolitionists should send arms to slaves to cause a militant rebellion. Wright was also a supporter of women's rights, both for suffrage and birth-control.
