Hill-Side Flowers
by Julia Matilda Tillotson Olin

Hill-Side Flowers
Julia Matilda Tillotson Olin, author

Hillside Flowers by Julia Matilda Tillotson Olin includes engraved illustrations and many lovely poems from many sources. 

This edition has a gift inscription written with a delicate hand  on the front free endpaper: Miss Minnie C. Tuttle. From her Amityville Friends. Christmas 1876. 

Introduction by Rev. Bishop Matthew Simpson (1811-1884) of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Hill-Side Flowers was published for the Author by Carlton & Phillips, 200 Mulberry Street in 1856.  240 pages, 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches, 21 cm. 

Julia Matilda Olin (1814-1879) was born to Judge James and Janet Lynch Tillotson and wed to Rev. Dr. Stephen Olin in 1843. Mrs. Olin served as secretary of the New York Female Bible Society and was the first president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, New York Branch (1869). 

Julia's literary accomplishments include both prose and poetry, and she also edited her husband's sermons which were published under several titles. 

Founder (1855) of the Hillside Chapel in Rhinebeck, New York, the connection of the book of poetry titled Hillside Flowers published in 1856 to this event is obvious (Source: The Biographical Dictionary of America, 1906).