Verlag: The Somerville Museum, Somerville MA, 1997
Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Quarto. 32pp. Exhibition Catalog for exhibit held at The Somerville Museum in 1997. A violent mob, enraged by rumors of atrocities inside the Ursuline Convent Female School, attacked, burned, and pillaged it in 1834. The nuns and girls fled, but the convent was totally destroyed. A fine copy of the catalogue of an exhibition on the subject, with accounts by witnesses and victims. As new in illustrated wrappers.