A Pious Prodigy
[DAVIS, Julia Sophia; John Stevens Cabot ABBOTT, editor.]
Memoir of Julia Sophia Davis, who died at Worcester, March 31, 1833. Worcester (Massachusetts), Dorr, Howland, & Co., 1833.
12mo, pp. viii, [13]–62, [2, blank], with engraved frontispiece portrait; some foxing, but a good copy; bound in contemporary red roan-backed drab boards, spine gilt-ruled in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, edges speckled brown; a little worn, headcap lost; old inscriptions ‘Abigail Hinman | Oxford. | Conn. | Presented to [Nillie?] E. Ellsworth, | Havana, | […] | Oct. 9th 1884’ to front free endpaper.
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Memoir of Julia Sophia Davis, who died at Worcester, March 31, 1833.
First and only edition of this posthumous memoir of an exemplarily pious girl in Massachusetts, Julia Sophia Davis.
The life of Julia Sophia Davis, who died aged eleven in 1833, is used as an example of juvenile piety by the pastor and pedagogue John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805–1877). This is among his earliest works, many of which followed a similar theme; the best-known is perhaps The Mother at Home. The text includes a testimonial from Davis’s parents, a day-by-day account of her final month, and many examples of her great serenity.
No copies traced in the UK.