Rachel Hammer Conservation Practical Experience

The BookTitle: The violet : a Christmas and New-Year's gift or birth-day present, 1837

Author: Eliza “Miss” Leslie

Publisher: Philadelphia : E.L. Carey and A. Hart, [©1836]

The author already wrote one of the first American cookbooks when she also became known for her etiquette books, books for children, and her contributions for literary annuals. The most famous was The Gift, a Christmas and New Year Present, which had submissions from classic authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Violet, however, was Leslie’s own take on The Gift and although it ran for a number of years, it fell short.

Conservation PhotosBefore (Left) and After (Right)