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Published by W.L. Griffin, Limited, Hamiliton, 1974
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 8vo. SIGNED by Charles Ambrose Carter to title page. Full cream cloth, title to spine and red stamped lettering and vignette of Dundurn Castle to front board. 88 pp. B&W illustrations and photos in-text. Very slight darkening to spine, a few spots of light soiling to boards. Faded inscription to ffep, glue stain to verso of ffep. The diary of Sophia MacNab, wife to the Seventh Earl of Albemarle, written at Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario when she was 13.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Second Edition. 88 pages including index and bibliogrpahy. Contains black and white photos and illustrations. The daily life of the Macnab family in Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, Canada West (now Ontario) from January 17th to July 8th, 1846, is brought vividly to life in the charminlgy written Journal of Sophia Macnab. She was born at Hamilton on the 5th day of July, 1832, and died in England in 1917. She began her Journal at the age of thirteen and it is the most detailed document so far discovered of the life of her father Sir Allan Napier Macnab, who was born at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) February 19th, 1798, and died in Dundurn Castle on August 9th, 1862.