Elizabeth Corbett Out At The Soldiers' Home: and 41 similar items

OUT AT THE SOLDIERS' HOME: A Memory Book by Elizabeth Corbett New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1941. First edition, first printing (1) on page 266. Near fine in gilt-stamped blue cloth; in a very good somewhat dust soiled dust jacket with edge tears, nicks, and minor chipping. From flap still retains the original $2.50 price. Dust jacket cover and internal illustrations by Edward S. Caswell. Frontispiece photo of the author (short ink notation below). "In an effort to aid crippled, chronically ill, or eventually elderly veterans of the Civil War, Congress passed an act that created the the National Asylum (later changed to Home) for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Looming over modern-day Milwaukee's Miller Park is a lasting reminder of that effort: the old main building of the Northwestern Branch, commonly referred to as The Soldiers' Home. In 1891, Richard Corbett brought his wife and children to live at the Soldiers' Home, where he worked as a civilian administrator. His daughter Elizabeth Corbett became a well-known novelist, and in 1941 she published Out at the Soldiers' Home: A Memory Book, a rather anecdotal account of her life and the lives of the men living at the home. ... it is perhaps the only published memoir of a person who lived at one of the dozens of national and state homes built to care for veterans of the Civil War."--West Side Soldiers' Aid Society. Born in Aurora, Illinois in 1887, Elizabeth Frances Corbett died in her Greenwich Village apartment in 1981. A very scarce memoir by the prolific author whose works were published for more than 50 years. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!