Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson / by Judith Martin. de Martin, Judith, 1938-

New York : Atheneum, 1985.. Soft Cover. x, 70 p. : illus. ; 19 cm. In lectures at Harvard Miss manners address the problem of etiquette in a democratic society. "My mission, rather, is to call attention to the need for a philosophically acceptable and aesthetically pleasing standard of American etiquette" (p. viii). She goes so far as to admit "that I am actually a direct descendant, on both sides of my family, from people who practiced [sex]" This is one of three passages underlined in ink by a great Newport dame. Stock# 44,222. Vg, except for aforesaid underlining / soft cover.