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The Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia P Hale
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Title: The Peterkin Papers
Author: Lucretia P Hale
Release Date: May 30, 2008 [EBook #25648]
Language: English
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THE
PETERKIN PAPERS
BY
LUCRETIA P. HALE
With Illustrations
SEVENTH EDITION.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1893
Copyright, 1880
By JAMES R. OSGOOD & COMPANY
and 1886
By TICKNOR & COMPANY
* * * * *
THE PETERKIN PAPERS
Dedicated
TO MEGGIE
(THE DAUGHTER OF THE LADY FROM PHILADELPHIA)
TO WHOM THESE STORIES WERE FIRST TOLD
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION OF THE PETERKIN PAPERS.
The first of these stories was accepted by Mr. Howard M. Ticknor for the "Young Folks." They were afterwards continued in numbers of the "St. Nicholas."
A second edition is now printed, containing a new paper, which has never before been published, "The Peterk