A season in New York, 1801 : letters of Harriet and Maria Trumbull
Harriet Trumbull Silliman, Maria Trumbull Hudson, Helen M. Morgan (Editor, Writer of introduction), Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
"To acquire the social skills befitting their station in life, Harriet Trumbull (Silliman) (1783-1850) and her sister Maria Trumbull (Hudson) (1785-1805), the teenaged daughters of the governor of Connecticut, spent the winter and spring of 1800-1 in New York City. The letters each sister wrote to their parents in Lebanon and Hartford, Connecticut, during this time chronicle their initiation into upper-class New York society. Though primarily taken up with notes on visiting, parties, plays, shopping, churchgoing, and drawing, dancing, and music lessons, the letters do impart a sense of the girls' conservative social values."
Print Book, English, [1969]
University of Pittsburgh Press, [Pittsburgh], [1969]