Susan Warner (1819-1885), A letter of credit (1881), 1882 edition
Produced by Daniel FROMONT
Note from the transcriber: a very important text for the study of
Susan Warner's "Queechy".
I. THE END OF A COIL. 12mo. $1.75.
"Miss Warner has added another pure and beautiful picture to the gallerythat has given so much pleasure to such great numbers. All her picturesare bright and warm with the blessedness of true love and true religion.We do not wonder that they receive so wide a welcome, and we wishsincerely that only such stories were ever written."—N. Y. Observer.
II. MY DESIRE. 12mo. $1.75.
"Miss Warner possesses in a remarkable degree the power of vividlydescribing New England village life, the power of making her villagepeople walk and talk for the benefit of her readers in all the freshnessof their clear-cut originality. She has an ample fund of humor, a keensense of the ridiculous, and a rare faculty of painting homely truths inhomely but singularly felicitous phrases."—Philadelphia Times.
III. THE LETTER OF CREDIT. 12mo. $1.75.
IV. PINE NEEDLES. A Tale. 12mo. $1.50.
V. THE OLD HELMET. A Tale. 12mo. $2.25.
VI. MELBOURNE HOUSE. A Tale. 12mo. $2.00.
VII. THE KING'S PEOPLE. 5 vols. $7.00.
VIII. THE SAY AND DO SERIES. 6 vols. $7.50.
IX. A STORY OF SMALL BEGINNINGS. 4 vols. $5.00.
By Miss Anna Warner.
STORIES OF VINEGAR HILL 3 vols. 3.00
ELLEN MONTGOMERY'S BOOKSHELF 5 vols. 5.00
…."The bewildering masquerade of life,
Where strangers walk as friends, and friends as strangers."
LONGFELLOW.
530 BROADWAY.1882.
Copyright, 1881,
BY ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS.
The following story, like its predecessors, "The End of a Coil," "MyDesire," and "Diana," is a record of facts. For the characters and thecoloring, of course, I am responsible; but the turns of the story, evenin detail, are almost all utterly true.
Martlaer's Rock,