Talk:Frances Boyd Calhoun

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"She submitted her manuscript to Messrs. Reilly and Britton (now Henry Regnery Publishing Company) and awaited a response. When she received no answer, Calhoun penned the following rhymed letter:

On the seventh of March, nineteen hundred and eight, Mr. Reilly, I sent you my book, And sure since that date for a letter from you Each day, I've continued to look. Is it pigeon-holed now where the bookworm alone May laugh and grow fat on each joke, Where canker and rust will eat out the hearts Of my dear little, quaint little folk? Or, alas, has it vanished from all human ken, The hard work of two long, long years? Will the public ne'er know of its merit and worth, Its laughter, its sighs and its tears? Or has it already been published in full And the 'steenth printing given it fame? And instead of the title I gave it myself Is it christened with some other name? If naught has befallen it, may I still hope You'll send my lost child back to me? And I'll start it anew on its difficult path Please ship it at once C. O. D. (1)" FloridaArmy (talk) 16:02, 24 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

If there are some more modern and/or critical reviews of her book, I would welcome their addition to the article. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 01:45, 3 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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