Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Concerning his illness; his gratitude for the illumination by Adelaide Procter and for Procter's poetry; his comments on Wilkie Collins; the cities of York and Chester; the value of words; Pauline Burette and his wish that she might talk French...