A memoir of Harriet Ware, first superintendent of the children's home, in the city of Providence

by Francis Wayland

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First edition

Providence: George H. Whitney, 1850. First edition, 12mo, pp. v, 3 , 151, 1 ; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine; engraved frontispiece of Harriet Ware; cloth at spine extremities perished, and cloth cracked; otherwise good and sound. Ware 1799-1847 was called to teach at India Point, a tough section of Providence, in 1834. The following year, with the assisstance of Wayland, President of Brown University, she established the

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