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Title: A girl's life eighty years ago

Selections from the letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne

Author: Eliza Southgate Bowne

Author of introduction, etc.: Clarence Cook

Release date: September 2, 2025 [eBook #76799]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887

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Mrs. WALTER BOWNE

From a miniature by Malbone, in possession of W. B. Lawrence

ARTOTYPE, E. BIERSTADT, N. Y.

A GIRL’S LIFE EIGHTY YEARS AGO
SELECTIONS FROM THE LETTERS OF ELIZA SOUTHGATE BOWNE

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLARENCE COOK
ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS AND VIEWS
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1887
Copyright, 1887,
By CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.