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:
“All the familiar horrors we
Associate with others
Are coming fast along our way:
The wind is warning in our tree
And morning papers still betray
The shrieking of the mothers.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)