Tappan, Eva March. Letters from Colonial Children. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. First Edition. [10979]
Red publisher's cloth decorated in black & gilt, 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, light soil, tight. Frontispiece "The Landing at Jamestown," xiii, [1], 319 clean pp. with many b/w plates; the boards a bowed somewhat. Very good. Hardcover.
A fictional account of letters to and from children in the American colonies.
Examples: A Letter written by Will Newton, an English boy in Virginia, to a boy friend in England; A Letter written by Henri Lamotte in Canada to his little brother Guillaume in France; A Letter written at Plymouth by John Billington to his Grandmother in England; A Letter written by Timothy Holden of Pennsylvania to his Cousin Henry in England.
Eva March Tappan (1854-1930), a native of Massachusetts. She graduated from Vassar College (1875), taught Latin and German at Wheaton College (1875-1880), was the associate principal at the Raymond Academy in Camden, New Jersey, and afterwards was head of the English department at the English High School, Worcester, Massachusetts. She wrote many books for children on history and famous persons.
