Old Book (x-post from Facebook)

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I’ve gotten jaded about books published in the 1800s because we have quite a few of them. Tonight, however, I was cataloging a book written by Elizabeth Keckley, who was the dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln. The book was published in 1868, and both Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln were still alive when the book was published. (I think that I read somewhere that Mrs. Lincoln was none too pleased about the book.) For some reason, that book got to me. Too bad that it’s not in the greatest of shape.