"A Friend in Need," Missouri Republican, April 20, 1873
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"A Friend in Need," Missouri Republican, April 20, 1873
Subject
Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904
New York Times
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Description
An anonymous author remembers reading Greenwood's "Book of Sketches" on a trip and praises her more recent letters written in California for the New York Times.
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Date
1873-04-20
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A small boy offered to get me some books. He brought [...] a Book of Sketches, by "Grace Greenwood." This all happened so long ago that I forget the date. (They used A.D. after the figures, I think, though it might have been B.C.) The sketches of course were accepted, and I devoted an hour or so to the frontispiece that represented "SaraJ. Clarke, Grace Greenwood"--a lovely young woman with magnificent eyes and a brilliant face. The little stories were very nice, and when I got tired of them I went back and renewed my admiration for the beautiful authoress. Down through succeeding ages the name of Grace Greenwood has always lived in my heart beneath the picture of that wet, leaky, ramshackle old depot, wherein I and a freckled youth, with yellow mud-covered stogies, kicked through five mortal hours. This year's "Grace Greenwood'" letters from California to the New York Times, have taken me captive in their graceful, witty way.
A small boy offered to get me some books. He brought [...] a Book of Sketches, by "Grace Greenwood." This all happened so long ago that I forget the date. (They used A.D. after the figures, I think, though it might have been B.C.) The sketches of course were accepted, and I devoted an hour or so to the frontispiece that represented "SaraJ. Clarke, Grace Greenwood"--a lovely young woman with magnificent eyes and a brilliant face. The little stories were very nice, and when I got tired of them I went back and renewed my admiration for the beautiful authoress. Down through succeeding ages the name of Grace Greenwood has always lived in my heart beneath the picture of that wet, leaky, ramshackle old depot, wherein I and a freckled youth, with yellow mud-covered stogies, kicked through five mortal hours. This year's "Grace Greenwood'" letters from California to the New York Times, have taken me captive in their graceful, witty way.
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/666821910. Accessed 9 June 2021.
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“"A Friend in Need," Missouri Republican, April 20, 1873,” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/694.