The Inimitable Carolyn Wells
Selections from scrapbooks (ca. 1910s) kept by the writer Carolyn Wells, author of, among other titles,:
“The Seven Ages of Childhood,” “The Happychaps,” “Folly in Fairyland,” and “Ptomaine Street: A Tale of Warble Petticoat”.
She also collaborated on several books with the artist Oliver Herford, who indulged her passion for cats with such whimsies as these:
Thank you for this fascinating look at mystery author Carolyn Wells (her novel _The Clue_ [1909] appears on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries).
The 1908 letter appears to be from a Fairbanks. Is that C. M. Fairbanks, the editor of _Browning’s Magazine_?