Faxon–Harris Copy · Lynchburg, Virginia
Authorial presentation inscription: "Mrs. Lucy S. Faxon, from her nephew, Chas. R. Hale (one of the authors), Christmas 1858." A second inscription records a later gift: "Given to Elizabeth Mills Harris…
Rare Book Room; accession 46177.
Presentation / Association
Authorial presentation inscription: "Mrs. Lucy S. Faxon, from her nephew, Chas. R. Hale (one of the authors), Christmas 1858." A second inscription records a later gift: "Given to Elizabeth Mills Harris, cousin of Charles R. Hale, by Julia L. Faxon, daughter of Mrs. Lucy S. Faxon." A bookplate reads "Presented by Miss Marjorie Harris."
Provenance Chain
Charles R. Hale → Lucy Seymour Mills Faxon, Christmas 1858 (Hale's maternal aunt) → gift via Julia Lucy Faxon → Elizabeth “Lillie” Mills Harris (Hale's first cousin) → Marjorie Silliman Harris → gift to Randolph College, Lipscomb Library
Provenance Narrative
The inscriptions trace a gift from Hale to his aunt Lucy, then from Lucy’s daughter Julia to Hale’s cousin Elizabeth Mills Harris. Marjorie Silliman Harris’s bookplate records her later gift to the college.
Sources and Documentation
Randolph College correspondence and copy photographs; Faxon and Daughters of the American Revolution lineage records; institutional biography of Marjorie Silliman Harris.
People in This Copy
- Charles Reuben Hale
- Lucy Seymour Mills Faxon
- Julia Lucy Faxon
- Elizabeth “Lillie” Mills Harris
- Marjorie Silliman Harris
