A diary from Dixie, . as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate army Edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
United States
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065857
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxii,424,[2]p.,plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Marginal marks and manuscript notes throughout including (p. xxii) [The author's husband] deeply disapproved her pleasure-seeking ways at such a time [...] Her "hositality" had in it a strong dash of sheer gluttony; and she was a reckless, and most ill-natured gossip'. GOT is also critical of the editing: 'The editing is [?] bad. Chapter X ought to end about page 143.' Dates of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: 'Oct 25 1910 Uncle Tom's birthday [i.e. Lord Macaulay] - the battle of Agincourt. August 8 1921. March 15 1925. Jan. 4 1924. July 4 1928.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on flyleaf: GO Trevelyan. Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's cloth.
Makers and roles
Mary Boykin Chesnut Myrta Lockett Avary (1857-1946) Isabella D. Martin