1900; The Macmillan Company publishers, New York; hardbound with brown boards and red and green lettering; many b/w photos; owner's name lightly written inside early page; covers have minor fading; good condition inside with tight binding; rough-cut style of pages; no dust jacket.
 
Alice Morse Earle (April 27, 1851 – February 16, 1911) was an American historian and author from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was christened Mary Alice by her parents Edwin Morse and Abby Mason Clary. On 15 April 1874, she married Henry Earle of New York City, changing her name from Mary Alice Morse to Alice Morse Earle. Her writings, beginning in 1890, focussed on small sociological details rather than grand details, and thus are invaluable for modern social historians. She wrote a number of books on colonial America (and especially the New England region) such as Curious Punishments of Bygone Days.
 
She was a passenger aboard the RMS Republic when, while in a dense fog, that ship collided with the SS Florida. During the transfer of passengers, Alice fell into the water. Her near drowning in 1909 off the coast of Nantucketduring this abortive trip to Egypt weakened her health sufficiently that she died two years later, in Hempstead, Long Island