It's always a wonderful surprise to discover something new between the pages of a book in the Library Collection. From time to time we like to share them here before returning them to the shelves. Earlier this week while working with the Myers Library Collection we came a cross a delightful copy of
The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms. Beautifully bound this volume tells the story of the South Carolina Revolutionary War hero perhaps better known as the "Swamp Fox" This copy also contained a suprise which we discovered on the one of the first pages - a portrait in profile. Who is this lady? Is she a member of the Myers family? It's fun to wonder who drew her portrait here, when, and why.
It's always a wonderful surprise to discover something new between the pages of a book in the Library Collection. From time to time we like to share them here before returning them to the shelves. Earlier this week while working with the Myers Library Collection we came a cross a delightful copy of The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms. Beautifully bound this volume tells the story of the South Carolina Revolutionary War hero perhaps better known as the "Swamp Fox" This copy also contained a suprise which we discovered on the one of the first pages - a portrait in profile. Who is this lady? Is she a member of the Myers family? It's fun to wonder who drew her portrait here, when, and why. 
It may well be Julia Barton Myers, wife of Moses Myers II (son of Samuel Myers, grandson of Moses Myers). There is a portrait of Julia someplace (in the Myers House?)that presents her as having a nose not unsimilar to that in this drawing.
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