Signed Fifteen Letters of Nathalie Sumter 1942 Mary Virginia Saunders White HCDJ

Printed for Gittman's Book Shop by the R.L. Bryan Company, 1942. Signed limited edition hardcover with dust jacket of Fifteen Letters of Nathalie Sumter by Mary Virginia Saunders White.

Signed by Mary Virginia Saunders White who wrote the introduction and notes.

Copy number 258.

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.

Good condition. Dust jacket worn with chipping to the edges and corners. Rubbing to the covers edges. Pencil markings to the front fly leaf. Binding solid and square. Interior pages clean and crisp. Solid book with shelf wear.