Tokens of affection : the letters of a planter's daughter in the Old South
This collection comprises all of the known letters written by Maria Bryan (1803-44) of Mt. Zion, Georgia, to her sister Julia Bryan Cumming of Augusta. Spanning a period from the mid-1820s to the mid-1840s, the letters relate firsthand the daily affairs and concerns of a planter's daughter on a moderately successful plantation in Hancock County, the heart of what was then the greatest cotton growing region in the world
Congress
xxxiv, 403 pages ; 24 cm.
9780820317274, 0820317276
31517907