Owls Nest: A Tribute to Sarah Elliott Perkins (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Edith Perkins Cunningham
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1331637392
ISBN-139781331637394
Sales Rank1,851,003
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Excerpt from Owls Nest: A Tribute to Sarah Elliott Perkins
The following letter was written to my father, Charles E. Perkins of Burlington, Iowa, when I sent him my manuscript, and it is given here at his suggestion as an explanation of how the book came to be written: -
Milton, Massachusetts, January 26th, 1907.
My dear Father, - In the spring of 1905 I re-read the Memoir of Grandpa Perkins, written by Mr. Channing in 1850, and although I found it interesting I wished that it had told us more about "Owls Nest" and the family there. Then it occurred to me that probably the other children in our family knew as little as I about Grandma's early life and the old days in Cincinnati. It was doubtless with them as with me: I grew up feeling that "Owls Nest" had always been a centre of generous hospitality, and that many people had loved Grandma, but beyond that I knew little.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The following letter was written to my father, Charles E. Perkins of Burlington, Iowa, when I sent him my manuscript, and it is given here at his suggestion as an explanation of how the book came to be written: -
Milton, Massachusetts, January 26th, 1907.
My dear Father, - In the spring of 1905 I re-read the Memoir of Grandpa Perkins, written by Mr. Channing in 1850, and although I found it interesting I wished that it had told us more about "Owls Nest" and the family there. Then it occurred to me that probably the other children in our family knew as little as I about Grandma's early life and the old days in Cincinnati. It was doubtless with them as with me: I grew up feeling that "Owls Nest" had always been a centre of generous hospitality, and that many people had loved Grandma, but beyond that I knew little.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
