Toilers of the Sea

Albany, New York: James B. Lyon, 1889. Later printing. Half Leather. Fair. 12mo. xii, 370 pages, [2]. Brownish marbled paper covered boards with brown leather corners and gilt decorated leather spine. Leather title labels on the spine. Marbled end sheets. Leather spine is scuffed and rubbed. Edge wear to the boards. Text is browned. Hinges are in good condition. Illustrated bookplate of Eugene Muse Mitchell on the front paste down with "Mrs." written in hand next to Eugene's name on the label. Provenance from the estate of the Mitchell family in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eugene Muse Mitchell (1866-1944) was born in Atlanta in 1866 to Russell Crawford Mitchell and Deborah Margaret Sweet. He graduated from the University of Georgia law school in 1886. He was an Atlanta attorney, co-founder of the Atlanta Historical Society, and father of Stephens Mitchell and Margaret Mitchell author of Gone With the Wind. His wife was Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens.

Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens Mitchell (1872-1919) was a suffragist, political activist, member of the Atlanta Woman's Club and a devout Catholic. She was the mother of Margaret and Stephens Mitchell. Her father was John Stephens and her mother was Annie Fitzgerald Stephens. Maybelle attended the Villa Maria Convent in Quebec and the Atlanta Female Seminary Institute graduating in 1892. She married Eugene Muse Mitchell in 1893. She died in the 1919 flu outbreak.