Samuel Ellsworth Kiser: 2 books

Known mostly for his poetry and contributions to Harper’s Magazine, not much else is known about Mr. Kiser. He had written a number of books and had an active and romanticized style to his writing. His light sense of verse in stories like this one made it as easy for a youth as an adult to read...

Some of the most humorous of his letters which have come under the observation of his clerical friends, were addressed to the secretary of one of them. Some little business matters with regard to his readings and the like had acquainted him with a better kind of handwriting than he had been accustomed...