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[PUTNAM, William Lowell] (PUTNAM, Mary Lowell, compiler). THE RETURN OF THE SWORD. N.p.: Privately Printed, 1897. 24 pp. 12mo., pamphlet format, approximately 7 1/4 by 6 inches. Heavy cream-colored paper wrappers, sewn, with title and epigraph printed on front. An epistolary account of twenty-one-year-old second lieutenant William Lowell Putnam's death at the Battle of Ball's Bluff on 21 October 1861 and the return of his sword - which had been a gift to him from his kinsman John Lowell Gardner - to his mother, Mary Lowell Putnam, in 1897. The correspondents include Mary Lowell Putnam, Colonel William Raymond Lee and his daughter, John Lowell Gardner, Thomas Wharton, and General Charles Lawrence Peirson. Wrappers show general light soiling all over, and the lower wrap is creased at one corner, else internally clean. Very good., Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of PUTNAM, William Lowell : RETURN OF THE SWORD. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, fine bindings, rare books, antiquarian books and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |