Christmas with Robert E. Lee by Helen Topping Miller - 1958

"For Robert E. Lee the war might be over, the glory faded, the bugles stilled, the guns silent, but the sorrows of it would live on in his heart forever." This is "a sympathetic story of what a Christmas could have been like in the Lee's house at Wahington College on December 25, 1865".

Condition: Decorative, price clipped dustjacket has a piece missing from the front top left corner, an approximate 3" tear from the jacket flap toward the front center, creases to the front, a small tear on the rear and a water stain. Light teal boards have a water stain from the jacket has also left a stain on both the front and rear boards but otherwise have no wear. There are also white marks along the front gutter from the jacket. All corners remain sharp with no bumping and the slightest hint of wear. Spine is straight and firm. Hinges are firmly attached to the endpapers. Text block is solid with all pages are firmly attached. Slight age tanning throughout. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. The interior pages are clean with no tears, chips, creases, or any other previous owner marks.

Helen Topping Miller (1884 - 1960) began writing stories as a child and had her first one published in "St. Nicholas when she was fifteen. Over the course of her long she wrote more than forty novels and three hundred short stories for both adults and children. During the 1930's she wrote light romance, by the 1940's she had added historical fiction, and by the 1950's she wrote a third type of fiction which were stories of Christmas at the homes of famous men. After she graduated from college in 1905, she then spent most of her life living in various southern states.