When Will the Day Come? INSCRIBED BY J. SULLIVAN WARREN, SON OF JOHN COLLINS WARREN, TO AN AUNT [WARREN, John Collins] [POTTER, Alonzo] [CARPENTER, William B.]

Frontispiece portrait of John Collins Warren, 2 leaves [title page, contents], 181 pp; portrait of Alonzo Potter. Original cloth. Small chip out of upper blank margin of one leaf (179/180), else Near Fine. First Edition. This copy was a gift from "S W", who was James Sullivan Warren, a son of John Collins Warren, to his aunt, ? Grant. Pencil note on blank leaf after front flyleaf: "To ? Grant/ for 50 years my fathers attached/ and true friend -- this is/ gratefully presented/ by her nephew/ SW/ Newport/ Sept 8th 1857" (see photo; because the writing is faint, I have enhanced its readability in this photo). John Collins Warren died in 1856, a year before this book was published. Contents: 1-80 When will the day come?; 81-131 Extracts from the records of the Massachusetts Society for the suppression of intemperance; 133-141 Extracts from Dr. Warren's journal; 143-149 From preface on the use and abuse of alcoholic liquors in health and disease by Wm. B. Carpenter; 151-181 Bishop Potter on the drinking usages of society (with a portrait of Alonzo Potter).