OLD PLANTATION DAYS BEING RECOLLECTIONS OF SOUTHERN LIFE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR BY Mrs. N. B. De Saussur NEW YORK DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1909 Copyright, 1909, by N. B. DE SAUSSURE THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK...

The following reminiscences are published at the request of many friends who, after reading the manuscript, have urged that the recollections be given more permanent form and a wider circulation. N. B. DeSaussure. My Dear Granddaughter Dorothy : Grandmother is growing to be an old lady, and as you are still too young to remember all she has told you of her own and your mother's people, she is going to write down her recollections that you may thus gain a true knowledge of the old plantation days

Beaufort, S. C. , January 8, 1906. My Dear Aunt Nannie: I fear you have by this time lost all hope of hearing from me, but I have not forgotten my promise. I am afraid, however, you will be very much disappointed, as I have so little information to give about family history, and that little is very scrappy. Our branch of the family have been criminally careless about preserving records. While I have not what we lawyers would consider strict evidence of the fact, still I am quite satisfied from c