About this title: A collection of letters written by the author of the Little House books to her husband, Almanzo, while she was visiting their daughter Rose Wilder Lane in San Francisco.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780064400817ISBN:0064400816
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1976
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
"I liked this a lot more than I was anticipating. These letters were written by Laura to her husband, well before she wrote the Little House books, during a visit she made to their daughter in San Francisco. In addition to seeing her daughter, the other point of the trip was to see the Panama-Pacific Exposition, kind of like a World's Fair thing. It's a great look at San Francisco at this time, she does a lot of sight-seeing (at the Expo and elsewhere) and describes everything with a lot of charming details -- she always said she got into this habit because she had to be so deliberate when describing things to her blind sister. Laura and her husband had a farm in Missouri, and the letters also have a good deal of information about farm things, you can tell she really paid attention to this and adds all sorts of little tidbits about what the soil is like and the prices of farm goods.
Grade: B+ Recommended: To fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and people who like lots of details about daily life during this time period. If you are familiar with San Francisco, it would probably be especially interesting."
""It is like a fairyland." So Laura Ingalls Wilder described her 1915 voyage to San Francisco to visit her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. Laura's husband, Almanzo, was unable to leave their Missouri farm and it is her faithful letters home, vividly describing every detail of her journey, that have been gathered here. Includes 24 pages of exciting photographs.
I've read just a few pages but found it interesting that Laura was called "Bessie" within her family to avoid confusion with her SIL, also named Laura. Laura's middle name was Elizabeth. Also, she addresses letters to her husband as "Manly Dear" - his name was Almanzo. After Laura's death in 1957, her daughter Rose, in her grief sifted through her mother's papers and tossed into cartons those things she thought she might want to look at later. She was never able to bring herself to do so. Then, after Rose died in 1968, her friend and executor found the letters and arranged for their publication. The letters were written in soft pencil - Laura was always frugal and used inexpensive and unlined paper which would not take ink."
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