8vo - 20.5 x 14 cm.; [12] - 242 pp. Tan cloth with green lettering and a green illustration stamped on front board. Pat leaves Ireland during the potato famine for a life in the US. Boston, Harvard, Louis Agassiz, Lowell, Holmes and Longfellow are all worked into this juvenile novel of new opportunities in the New World. This copy was awarded to a young student as a prize for French studies, according to the book plate on the fep.; otherwise, this is clean and tight. The DJ is price clipped, has some light edgewear, sunning on spine, rubbing and a little staining.

Loring MacKaye Juvenile Fiction Irish Immigration Harvard