On offer is a simply fascinating original 1887 to 1905 manuscript journal and scrapbook of the young Annie Oakes Huntington. Annie has an absolutely amazing history, especially given the era during which she writes: Huntington was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, in 1875. She was from the famed Boston Quincy family on her mother's side (Elizabeth Quincy Huntington) , and her father, Elijah Hunt Mills Huntington, was a grandson of Senator Mills of Massachusetts. Huntington had an ambitious and seemingly happy childhood, a sick young adulthood, and then a few happy decades in a farmhouse wi... View More...
