Unofficial Letters of an Official’s Wife

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355pp. plus 4pp. publisher’s advertisements, hardcover, original red cloth, VERY RARE.

A series of letters by an eyewitness written by Edith Moses about the Philippines provides a colorful insight into life in the country at the turn of the previous century. These letters were subsequently published in this book. Edith Moses was the wife of Bernard Moses, a member of the Philippine Commission from 1900 to 1902. The commission was appointed by the American President William McKinley in 1900 to exercise legislative and limited executive powers in the Philippines. The commission was also known as the “Taft Commission,” so named after William Howard Taft, its first head.