Abstract

It was a very drab and dingy little volume that started me to col­ lecting children’s books—not at all the kind of book commonly looked upon as a “collector’s item.” Or, rather, it was the flyleaf that did it. There, in a cramped Spencerian hand, written in faded violet ink, was the alluring inscription: TO DELIA PENDLETON for “Fair endeavor to possess an elegance of mind.” From HER TEACHER, E. Sargant December, 1831

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