[CONNECTICUT, New Haven.]
MOSS, Lucy E. Diary.
One volume. 1898 - 1901.
This work resides in a beautifully gold-tooled, red leather "Record" book with owner's name on separate sheet pasted onto first free endpaper. The author's religiousity and piety resound on nearly every page, many of which are headed with exhortations and expressions of gratitude to a powerful, omniscient apparently Christian God. Bible verses laid in on separate, single handwritten sheet.Documentaton of her life in a boarding house, her finances, social calls she made, along with other countless details of life at the turn of the 20th century.

9" high x 6-1/2" wide x 1-1/8" thick. Red leather as above with front hinge starting to go. Back hinge fine. Fore-edge and top and bottom edges marbled. Corners bumped with wear to leather down to binders' board. Engrossing in ink, highly personalized and stylized, and legible throughout. Pages very tight on original threads, nothing loose or shaken, nothing cocked or torqued. 288 machine- stamped pages, each filled with observations, daily and personal matters, climatological notations.

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(Above) Lucy Moss's holograph bookplate, 5" x 3-3/4."

(Below) Moss's piety is expressed through her Bible reading, church attendance, and diary proclamations to a powerful Creator.