Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1839-1846

Name/Title

Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1839-1846

Entry/Object ID

2012.017.07

Description

The seven-year correspondence between Eliza Middleton Fisher and her mother, Mary Hering Middleton. Chronicles issues and events ranging from mental illness to musical performances, financial panics to children's parties, pregnancy to politics. xlii, 532 p., [30] p. of plates : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2012.017.

Source or Donor

Mrs. Jane P. deButts

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Jane P. deButts

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Mothers and daughters--South Carolina--Charleston Region--Correspondence, Mothers and daughters--Pennsylvania--Correspondence, Charleston Region (S.C.)--Biography, Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography

Book Details

Author

Fisher, Eliza Middleton, 1815-1890, Middleton, Mary Hering Harrison, Eliza Cope

Series

Women's Diaries and Letters of the South

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Place Published

Location

Columbia, SC

Date Published

circa 2001

Call No.

CT275 .F5598 A4 2001

ISBN

1570033757

LCCN

00011420

Location

Location

Shelf

Hall Bookshelf

Building

NRH Research Room

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Building

NR Docent Library

Category

Permanent

Location

Building

Checked Out

Moved By

Brandy S. Culp

General Notes

Note

Notes: Edited by Eliza Cope Harrison. Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-511) and index. Inscribed to donor by the author.

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Create Date

October 1, 2012

Updated By

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Update Date

April 5, 2023