The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - Doesticks' Letters: New Year's Calls-What They Were in the Old Times, and What They are Now-a-days

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(source: Stanford Libraries)
Online Full Text: Stanford Digital Repository (Note: Some minor damage on pages 1 and 2.)
Series: New York Weekly v. 22 no. 12 — page 6
Alternate Title: Doesticks' Letters no. 42
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXII, no. 12, February 7, 1867 (Issue)
Author: Doesticks, Q. K. Philander, 1831-1875
Date: February 7, 1867
Notes: Although sometimes numbered, this series of sketches eventually abandons its numbering system and can be found scattered throughout the New York Weekly in individual issues.
First Sentence: When I was a gay and festive youth- say from the age of fifty-eight down through my juvenile years to that blessed day when, being for the first time put into a tail-coat and boots, I truly felt that I had ceased to be a baby- I delighted in annually putting myself and my friends through that interesting ceremony known as "Making New Year's Calls."

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