The New Penelope

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The New Penelope (1877)
by Frances Fuller Victor
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THE NEW PENELOPE


AND


OTHER STORIES AND POEMS.



BY

Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor.




San Francisco:

A. L. BANCROFT & COMPANY, PRINTERS.

1877.


Copyright, 1877, by
MRS. FRANCES FULLER VICTOR.


PREFACE.


This collection consists of sketches of Pacific Coast life, most of which have appeared, from time to time, in the Overland Monthly, and other Western magazines. If they have a merit, it is because they picture scenes and characters having the charm of newness and originality, such as belong to border life.

The poems embraced in the collection, have been written at all periods of my life, and therefore cannot be called peculiarly Western. But they embody feelings and emotions common to all hearts, East or West; and as such, I dedicate them to my friends on the Pacific Coast, but most especially in Oregon.

Portland, August, 1877.


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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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