Description
Privately Printed, Published [No date: circa 2010]. Hardcover, 94 pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white and color family photographs throughout.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In very good condition with a very good dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards, no lettering on front or spine, minimal shelf wear, binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Black dust jacket with inset black-and-white photograph of the Soledad garden gate shows light bumping to edges and mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Privately printed family memoir of the last American years at Soledad, the E. Atkins and Co. sugar estate near Cienfuegos, Cuba. Narrated by Katharine "Kitty" Claflin Weeks, granddaughter of Boston sugar merchant Edwin F. Atkins (author of Sixty Years in Cuba), with her husband John Wingate Weeks II (1920-2013), son of Eisenhower Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and grandson of Senator John W. Weeks, Secretary of War under Harding and Coolidge. John Weeks left the First National Bank of Boston in 1948 to manage his wife's family sugar and cattle operation and ran Soledad until the estate was expropriated by Castro's government in 1960. Compiled by the couple and their daughters from family letters and recollections, with chapters on the plantation's history from the Sarria family forward, everyday life, schooling, visitors, and the Revolution and departure. Soledad was also the site of Harvard's Atkins botanical garden, and the family's claim against the Cuban government was filed with the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Apparently unrecorded: no WorldCat (OCLC) holdings located.