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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Publisher's white cloth decorated and titled in gilt. The white boards a trifle soiled, still easily near fine. A collection of essays on friendship and God. Inscribed by the author to Mary V. Claflin: "Mrs. Claflin, with the love of Her friend, Lucy Larcom. Beverly. June 17, 1892." As a girl Larcom worked in the Lowell textile mills where she also contributed to the *Lowell Offering* where her poems attracted the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier. She taught at the Wheaton Female Seminary and later edited several magazines for children and adolescents, including *Our Young Folks*. Her ascension from mill girl to author and editor served as a model for American women and girls of the lower classes in the mid-19th Century. Mary Claflin was the wife of the abolitionist and progressive Governor of Massachusetts, William Claflin, who according to his biography at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, which… Read More