The Lees of Virginia: Biography of a Family (Thomas Wolfe Association)
New York: Halcyon House, 1935. Illustrated. Hardcover. On the front flyleaf is written: "R.F. Campbell From Rev. & Mrs. C. Grier Davis, Dec. 12, 1938- 80th Birthday." R. F. Campbell is the Rev. Robert Fishburne Campbell (1858–1947), pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Asheville, North Carolina, from 1892 until he retired in 1938, then pastor emeritus. That was Thomas Wolfe's family’s church. Thomas Wolfe went to Sunday school there as a boy.
When Wolfe died in September 1938, Campbell, by then the former pastor, officiated at the funeral in that church, assisted by the current pastor, C. Grier Davis. The service used “Abide with Me” and “Crossing the Bar.” Campbell said he could not speak definitely about Wolfe’s religious life, and quoted Of Time and the River: “Where shall the weary rest? When shall the lonely of heart come home?” Campbell was a civic as well as a church figure in Asheville, and is buried in Riverside Cemetery, as Wolfe is.
ABOUT THIS BOOK: "The Lees of Virginia: Biography of a Family" is Burton J. Hendrick’s history of the Lee family of Virginia, from the immigrant founder to the generation of Robert E. Lee. It is a family biography, not a military life of the general. Hendrick, a Pulitzer-winning biographer, works from earlier Lee memoirs, Edmund Jennings Lee’s genealogy, and manuscript collections at Harvard, the University of Virginia, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Congress. John Adams’s remark that the Lees had “more men of merit” than any other family is the book’s epigraph.
ABOUT THIS COPY: Bound in a light denim blue cloth with navy blue ornamental box on the cover with gilt ornamentation and gilt lettering on the cover and spine. Navy blue top stain. Deckled foredge and foot. Leaves are laid paper. Illustrated with twelve photographic plates in black and white, all present. Indexed. xii, 455 pp.
CONDITION: Moderate external wear with soiling on the cover, particularly along the extremities and spine. Leaves have lightly toned. Annotation without in pencil, with additional annotation on some photographs detailing further information on the person pictured. Previous owner's name / provenance written on the front flyleaf as mentioned. Hinges are solid and the binding is sound. A nice, solid, Thomas Wolfe association copy. Full refund if not satisfied. Very Good.
Item #081921
Price: $75.00