Fifteen Letters of Nathalie Sumter by Mary Virginia Saunders White, Signed, HCDJ

by Mary Virginia Saunders White

$75 · Offered by eBay

Signed · Limited edition

Fifteen Letters of Nathalie Sumter by Mary Virginia Saunders White, Signed, HCDJ Signed by author. In very good condition with dust cover wear, pages unmarked. Nathalie Delage Sumter (born Nathalie de Lage de Volude in 1782) was a member of the French nobility and godchild of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. To escape the French Revolution, she fled to New York at age eleven, where she was raised in the household of politician Aaron Burr until she returned to France at nineteen. Upon returning, she met and married Thomas Sumter Jr., a diplomat and the son of the Revolutionary War figure known as the "Gamecock," subsequently living with him in South Carolina and on diplomatic posts in Brazil. She was noted for her strong Catholic Faith and her role as the matriarch of the Sumter family on their plantation.

• Publisher: Printed for Gittman's Book Shop by the R.L. Bryan Company
• Year: 1942
• Condition: Very Good

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