The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work.
The first of the Peterkin stories appeared in 1867 in a magazine named Our Young Folks, later named St. Nicholas Magazine. The series continued for nine years, and made the Peterkins a household word.
The collected stories were published in 1880 under the title The Peterkin Papers, and reprinted in 1960.
Famous quotes containing the word papers:
“I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
—Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)