Antique Book 

Journal of a Georgian Plantation

by Frances Anne Kemble

1st Edition 1863

July 1863....1st Edition  (during the Civil War) of  the Controversial Book,  A Journal of a Georgian Plantation by Frances (Fanny) Kemble.  published more than 20 years after her visit to her husbands Plantation, as propaganda for the current events of that time, the civil war. Check out Fanny Kemble - I added a link to a quick below

The book shows wear..

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What is most unique about this book is that in July 158 years ago...Hardware Merchant, James Carlin, from Alexandria, VA.,  purchased this book days after the 1st release in the United States. 

Mr. Carlin must have laid his book about to discover that someone wrote in margin of the last page. Not happy, Mr.Carlin wrote his views on 2 pages.

It is all a very interesting to have additional views written in this book during controversial times in our history.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1569.html <-- quick History of Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler.