Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Ellen received several letters from family in Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Iowa from 1865 through 1887. Of special interest is an 1886 letter from a niece, Maud R. Rhoad, who described Iowa State Normal School in Cedar Falls, and the classes she...