Research Catalog

Title

Butter balls and finger bowls.

Author

Knowlton, Josephine Gibson, 1885-

Publication

Providence?] 1960.

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Holdings

Details

Description

487 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Subject

• De Wolf family
• Gibson family

Genre/Form

Autobiographies

Note

• Sequel to Longfield.
• Autobiographical.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Early recollections -- Education starts -- School days -- Aunt Dodo -- Trip abroad -- Growing up -- Debut in Rome -- Romance -- Winter in Munich -- Taormina -- A trip west -- Bermuda -- The resolute -- World War I -- The first Chevrolet -- We move to Bristol -- Early days at Longfield -- A new name -- Washington, D.C. -- I learn to pray -- Another gift from heaven -- A trip to California -- Change of residence -- Potomac school -- Roma is written -- A god sent message -- The wishing well -- Horsemanship -- Miss Alicia -- Important decision -- 1938 -- His sixteenth birthday -- A trip south -- All Hallows guild -- Two world fairs -- The little brick house -- World War II -- Growing up in another generation -- Dadie's debut -- My turtles -- An invasion -- Christmas, 1944 -- The limitations of a president -- Life in Washington -- Life on a ranch -- The studio -- The slave cottage -- Dadie goes south -- Christmas in Georgia -- Welcome arrivals -- The future, the present, and the past -- The last call.

LCCN

^^^60050830^

OCLC

• 2572026
• SCSB-11594737

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library