Practical Hints to Honest Hearts: on Some of the Many Ways and Means of Doing Good: in a Number of Letters to Sundry Females / by Euphrosyne and Christina; to which is added, Thoughts on the Duty of Praying in Schools, Addressed to Scholars of Both Sexes, by an Instructor.
New York: Printed by J. Seymour, 1818. iv, [13-]170 pp. 16mo. Cloth. First edition. Boards rubbed, extremities worn, a bit of scuffing to spine, free front endpaper missing, scattered foxing, corner creases to a few preliminary leaves, solid in binding. A good or better copy of this scarce item. Shaw & Shoemaker 44190; 45401; 43617. Item #24654
Practical advice to women for doing good in their communities. The "Thoughts" had formally been attributed to Richard Graves (1715-1804) but is currently thought to be the work of Rufus Nutting in Chapman, G. Sketches of the alumni of Dartmouth College, 1867, p. 173-174 (AAS).
Contains: Letter I. To an aged Lady; II. To a Mother ; III. To a Mother; IV. To a Wife; V. To a School Girl; VI. To a Visitant; VII. To a Servant; VIII. To a yound Lady, the language of whose heart is, "Lord, what wilt though have me do?"; IX. To a young Lady, who, soon after making a public profession of religion, almost forgot the Lord that bought her, and too lightly esteem the Rock of her salvation; X. To a rich influential Lady; XI. To a pious Female in reduced circumstances; XII. To a Lady subject to occassional depressions ;XIII. To a Female Friend, who is "unknown, yet well known"; Thoughts on the Duty of Praying in Schools.
Scarce. OCLC locates physical copies at only five libraries: Boston Public, Harvard, American Antiquaran Soc., Univ. Illinois, and New York State Lib.
Price: $250.00