We've found several books in the Bullis Collection that were presented as holiday gifts. Here they are for your consideration. And we've included the inscriptions that were written inside, in graceful longhand.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
"Christmas 1904 from Louisa Fisher"
Old Kaskia Days by Elizabeth Holbrook.
"From Mrs. E. G. Matlock to Mr. Wm. Don Maus, Christmas, 1898"
Historic Towns of New England by Lyman Powell.
"To Helen from Mother Henry, Christmas 1901"
The Poems Sacred, Passionate and Humorous by N. P. Willis
"To my dear brother William from Emma, Christmas 1871"
Farm Legends by Will Carleton
"A Christmas present to Asher Freeman at the age of 61 years by his granddaughter,
Florance Freeman, dau. of Linus and Myra Freeman at the age of 2 1/2 years.
At Middleport, Niagara Co. NY, December 25, 1875
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
"A. R. Bullis
Mr. S. Ni from M. E. Cooley
Xmas 1898"
A Soldier's Memories in Peace and War by G. J. Younghusband
"Frederick T. Teet
Auburn NY
Xmas 1917"
The Wolf Boy of China by Wm. Dalton
"Francis Granger
No. 250 w. 57th St. N Y City
Xmas 1886"
May we also suggest that you jot a little note to the recipient inside the book? And be sure to date it, too, for the benefit of readers a hundred years from now.
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