"Prof. Charley": A Sketch of Charles Thompson
Boston: D.C. Heath, 1902.
Price: $400.00
Softcover. First edition. Introduction by Joseph Osgood Thompson. 34pp., frontispiece. Paper over stiff card wraps, some splitting along the edges of the paper spine, yapped edges a bit bumped, a very good copy. The author was the daughter of Rev. William A. Stearns, President of Amherst College. Stearns took over the care of Thompson, a young African-American boy, and Thompson later became a well-known figure on the Amherst campus. Very scarce. *OCLC* lists no copies in American libraries.
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