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The Last of the Peterkins
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Title: The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin
Author: Lucretia P. Hale
Release Date: April 4, 2005 [EBook #15546]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE LAST OF THE PETERKINS,
With Others of their kin.
BY LUCRETIA P. HALE.
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BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1906.
_Copyright, 1886_, BY ROBERTS BROTHERS. Printers S.J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.
TO
THE LADY FROM PHILADELPHIA,
BELOVED BY THE PETERKIN FAMILY,
This Book is Dedicated.
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PREFACE.
The following Papers contain the last records of the Peterkin Family, who unhappily ventured to leave their native land and have never returned. Elizabeth Eliza's Commonplace Book has been found among the family papers, and will be published here for the first time. It is evident that she foresaw that the family were ill able to contend with the commonplace struggle of life; and we may not wonder that they could not survive the unprecedented, far away from the genial advice of friends, especially that of the Lady from Philadelphia.
It is feared that Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin lost their lives after leaving Tobolsk, perhaps in some vast conflagration.
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