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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Asa Packer" is a brief biographical synopsis and appreciation of the life of Asa Packer, founder of Lehigh University. The book, which has an Introduction by Lawrence H. Gipson , Pulitzer Prize recipient, and professor emeritus of history at Lehigh, was written by Robert C. Cole. The slim volume seems to be an offprint from the 1966 Centennial Issue of the Lehigh Alumni Bulletin, in which it originally appeared. Mr. Cole was editor of the Bulletin. TITLE : Asa Packer AUTHOR : Robert C. Cole INTRODUCTION : Dr. Lawrence H. Gipson IMPRINT : Not stated ( but Lehigh University Alumni Bulletin) PLACE : Not stated (But Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA) DATE : (1966) PHYSICAL DETAILS : Slim Hardcover Book, Privately Published Offset; one illustration (a small reproduction of an old engraved portrait of Asa Packer) 24 pages; 5" x 8", dark gray cloth binding; orange dust-jacket with 'asa packer' in black lettering on front panel. CONDITION : BOOK : NEAR FINE - JACKET : VERY GOOD - Clean and attractive with negligible signs of handling (a slight touch of surface irregularity on the front is all).

Both items in good condition on aged paper. A dramatic, almost novelistic correspondence, regarding 'the Signora' (named in the second letter as 'Mme Sineo', who is staying at her house in Torquay and is apparently too frail to return to her London house. Letter One: Docketed 'No 1'. 12mo, 4 pp. Peard states that she has not 'written of late about the Signora. She has got fairly well again, but she does not seem to us fit to return to London, & I hear that her doctor does not think she ever will be fit. This she does not know, & you must not let out!' As her 'best friend', Mrs Cole will know whether 'she would be better off if she had only one home'. 'She is a very difficult person to advise, & is easily offended. I believe she has never been angry with me, but then I am very cautious! [.] One lady here, too (a friend of mine) has always pleased her, & has been very kind.' Letter Two: Docketed 'No 2. Do not return any of these | S C'. 12mo, 3 pp. She thanks her for her 'long & explicit' letter, which puts me fully in possession of the case'. She has written to Madame Sineo's doctor, 'saying I had only heard that he did not think she could ever return to London, & if that was his opinion suggesting it might be better for him to tell her so, on account of her rooms in London.' The doctor's answer 'does not take any responsibility!' Peard then states: 'I do not want it [i.e. responsibility] again.' The kind lady has given Madame Sineo '£5 at Xmas, & £3 last week, & no doubt others have assisted her'. Peard does not think 'we can do anything about her going back to London'. She ends by congratulating Mrs Cole on her son's book. The identity of 'the Signora' is unclear, but the Athenaeum, 11 January 1862, carries an advertisement for Italian teaching by 'Professor and Madame Sineo-Benaducci' of 17 Northumberland Place, Westbourne Grove.