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:
“You had such a vision of the street
As the street hardly understands;
Sitting along the bed’s edge, where
You curled the papers from your hair,
Or clasped the yellow soles of feet
In the palms of both soiled hands.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)