The attributes that make this book special are two:
1-The following is handwritten in ink by the author on fronts-piece:
Presented to Mrs. Emily Griffin
by
her friend
Mrs. Luna M Hammond.
Eaton. Mad Co. N.Y.
Sept 1865
I love my friends whever they are
Whatever be their lot.
If but I know, from time to time,
That they forget me not. "L"
[Is
this the "first appearance" of a significant poem? The words certainly seem to ring a bell of familiarity with me.
A colloquialism of the past?]
2-Mrs. Deiadamia Chase [ the
subject of this book] gave Mrs. Emily Griffin [the book-owner] a
phrenological assessment; at which time Mrs. Chase recorded these results [in her own hand,in pencil] in the Phrenology
"scorecard" in the rear of this book. See above photo: "The Synopsis of Phrenology; and the Phrenological
Developments, Together with the Character and Talents of: Emily Griffin as given by: Mrs. Deiadamia Chase Eaton __? [this
"Eaton ___" is probably the same geographic reference which follows Luna M. Hammond's signature in front of
book.]
CITATION: Hammond,
L. M. (Luna M.) Trials and Triumphs of an Orphan Girl, or, The Biography of Mrs.
Deiadamia Chase, Physician and Phrenologist. Cortland, N.Y.: Van Slyck & Hitchcock, 1859, 1859. 229 pp.
Signatures, poem,
and inscription are barely visible. See photos.
$270.
