Stories and poems for children / by Celia Thaxter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's poetry.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)

Kane, Helen Dorothea (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)

Kane, Sybil Kent (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

vii, 257 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.

Summary:

Ten short stories and seventy-one poems on a variety of topics.

Notes:

List of author's works before frontispiece.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy 1 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 has dated 19th-century ms. inscription ("Helen Dorothea Kane from her affectionate Aunt Sybil January 1st 1896") recording the gift of this volume to Helen Dorothea Kane (later Johnson; b. 1887) from her aunt Sybil Kent Kane (1856-1946) on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Cited in:

BAL 10907

OCLC:

7107183