first edition
1844 · Boston
by ENGLISH, Wm. B.
Boston, 1844. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Printed pink paper wrappers; 32pp; wood engraving of Fairchild on front cover and final page. Untrimmed, rubbed with marginal chips, covers detached, minor foxing: Good only.
Fairchild, a Congregationalist minister, was tried for seducing Rhoda Davidson, a domestic worker in his employ. This pamphlet reports on his trial by an Ecclesiastical Council, in which he was convicted; later, he was tried in a Boston municipal court and acquitted. The entire scandal was widely reported on in the New England press. (Inventory #: 56249)
Fairchild, a Congregationalist minister, was tried for seducing Rhoda Davidson, a domestic worker in his employ. This pamphlet reports on his trial by an Ecclesiastical Council, in which he was convicted; later, he was tried in a Boston municipal court and acquitted. The entire scandal was widely reported on in the New England press. (Inventory #: 56249)