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. 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
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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. 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
"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."
"Not bad! After the turgid 'On The Way Home,' this collection of letters (mostly from Laura to Almanzo/Manly, though her daughter writes a few missives home as well) reclaims some of the good humor and wide-eyed fascination of the last few Little House books. Laura travels to San Francisco to spend a few months with her daughter Rose, to work on some book ideas, and also to see the Panama Exhibition, which is taking place all that summer. If you've ever wondered what Laura/Mama Bess thinks about Samoans, kangaroos, real estate in SF, or methods of condensing milk, you will wonder no longer after this book. And if you want to eat an octopus, you will do that too...I promise you that.
If only she hadn't had to grow fat and fall off a streetcar...."
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