Literature & Miscellany

Our Country: The American Parlor Keepsake

Our country : or, The American parlor keepsake

A patriotic parlor gift-book edited by William Henry Ryder, the Chicago Universalist leader whose benefactions later endowed denominational institutions. Literature, biography, and national sentiment for the center table — the Universalist clergy participating in the general culture of the 1850s parlor.

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