Author: [Erskine Neale]
Title: Experiences of a Gaol Chaplain
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1850. New edition. From the library of Mary Lowell Putnam with her signature. She was an American author and the sister of James Russell Lowell. Mary Lowell Putnam's son died in the American Civil War and she established a library in his honor at the National Veterans Home in Dayton Ohio. The library was founded with books from her library of which this is one. It has a bookplate with her signature and the name Putnam Library embossed into the leather spine. There are no further ex-libris markings. The Putnam Library was dispersed during renovation of the Home following her death. .

Keywords: Rare