FROM A NEW ENGLAND WOMAN'S DIARY IN DIXIE IN 1865 by Ames, Mary - 1906.

Springfield, MA: 1906.. 1906.. Good. - Small octavo, blue cloth with a printed label on the front cover. The spine & extremities are lightly rubbed & a bit darkened with the head & tail of the spine chipped. There is a small area of light staining to the front cover & a small white stain to the rear cover. vi & 125 pages. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece with a printed tissue guard. The page edges are darkened. Good. <p>First edition.<p>Mary Ames and Emily Bliss, two white northern school teachers, were employed by the Freedmen's Bureau and sent to South Carolina to open a school for the benefit of former slaves.<p>A leaf tipped-in at the front of the book states: This book is made and sold to benefit the Scholarship founded by the Springfield Hampton Club in memory of Elizabeth Mary Ames."