52. From one author to another

Edward Everett Hale
Boston, MA; New York, NY, 1887-1906

These images are of inscriptions on the fly-leaves of Edward Everett Hale’s The Story of Spain (New York: Putnam, 1886), Franklin in France (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887-88), and Tarry at Home Travels (New York: Macmillan, 1906) from the author to his personal assistant, Harriet E. Freeman (1847-1930). Hale (1822-1909) was a Unitarian minister and a popular author and speaker. They represent three of at least 11 books by Hale with inscriptions to Freeman in Andover-Harvard Theological Library that hint that her role in the writing of these books was not merely secretarial, even though she is not acknowledged in the printed work. The first image also includes two lines in Pitman shorthand, widely used at the time not only by secretaries but by members of the clergy.

English. Paper.
Andover-Harvard Theological Library. Special Collection DP68 .H16 1886; E249 .F83 1887; F9 .H165 1906 . HOLLIS Catalog: 012329319