12mo. 225pp, [1]. With a silhouette portrait frontispiece. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind, later rebacked preserving contemporary spine panel, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed and lightly marked. Marbled endpapers, frontispiece damp-stained, offsetting to title, short marginal tear to leaf I3, very occasional spotting. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'Rachel & Mary Stacey, with the Christian regards of their affectionate friend, the Editor 15.V.1842'.

The sole edition, printed for private circulation of a selection of familial letters by British Quaker Elizabeth Hodgkin [née Howard] (1803-1836). Having married into such a prominent Quaker family, it is unsurprising that the majority of her correspondence concerns religious matters. Together with her husband, preacher John Hodgkin (1800-1875), she had three children, including historian Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913). She died giving birth to their fifth child, who did not survive.

OCLC and COPAC together record copies at seven locations (BL, Columbia, Lancaster, Leeds, Oxford, Tasmania, and York).