Haslam Caroline (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(+). Quarto in black, glossy pictorial boards in matching black dust jacket; illus. (some color); 288 p., 26 cm. In French. Fine copy in near fine(+) dust jacket, both with faintest edgewear; else tight; boards are clean; pages and illustrations are clean, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight and square. in near fine + dust-jacket.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Quarto, 4 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, some old folds, some splits along folds and slight breaks at fold joints, else very good, and legible. Caroline, probably a teenager, writes to her cousin Ellen, who had sailed with her to Europe in the spring and had stayed with her in Paris, where neither of us [were] in very excellent spirits, you were about commencing a long voyage with entire strangers, and I was soon to return to prison; but how changed you are at home amusing yourself and I am still in prison, for it deserves no better name She writes of the dull monotony of her life, the boredom of school and living with her mother and aunt, who, supported by remittances from America, were kept busy attending fetes and balls and the boring social whirl of Louis Philippe's France ( how slowly the time passes, every minute seems a day ). Rare moments of excitement were attending the funeral of Lafayette ( very splendid, all the troops were on foot but it is suspected that it was more from fear of a new émeute than from honor to the General ) and the Exposition Industrielle on the Place de la Concorde ( O! how I wish you could see itit surpasses my expectations ). But the only real diversion was gossip: Caroline s daily companion was Eleanor (Ellen) Percy Ware, daughter of banker Nathaniel Ware, the last acting Territorial Governor of Mississippi, who raised his two girls after his wife was committed to an insane asylum. Ellen s sister Caroline Warfield later to become the best-known southern woman novelist of the Civil War period had just given birth to a son ( frightfully ugly, of course his parents and Ellen think him beautiful ), an inauspicious moment because her husband was so deeply in debt that his creditors have got out a warrant against him and he has not been able to put his nose out of doors for several days, the commissaire has been watching for him , while the new mother cried bitterly and went off to get a loan from a friendly banker to tide her over, while awaiting the imminent arrival of her rich father, who might not have enough money with him (please don t breathe a word about it not even to your dearest friends for I would not have it known for worlds particularly through me) to cover his son-in-law's debts. It would prove a temporary embarrassment because the Warfields would soon inherit a large Mississippi plantation, worked by 85 slaves and the vast land holdings Ware was beginning to acquire in revolutionary Texas, while sister Caroline would grow up to marry a cousin of Robert E. Lee.…