CAP'N WARREN'S CHILDREN

Lincoln, Joseph C.

Published by A.L. Burt, New York, NY, 1911

About this Item

Text/Bright As New. Embossed green boards/NF. DJ/None. A story from yarn-spinner Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870-1944) in which life in South Denboro on the Cape becomes tied up with that in the elite enclave of brownstones of New York's Central Park West. Bachelor and old salt hayseed, Captain Elisha Warren, is the town's jovial, social community leader (being "a selectman and director in the bank and trustee of the church"), and, is admired by all for his earthy (salty, too) joi de vivre with marked generosity, integrity and sound judgement. As the draw of the luck in families, the Cap'n had a younger brother whose fortunes differed greatly from his. The brother was schooled and rose to be a New York financier of considerable stature. The Cap'n says his brother "got the frostin' on the cake, and I got the burnt part next to the pan. He went to college, and I went to sea", and he married "one of them fashionable women" Boston newspapers wrote about "givin' parties at Newport and one thing a'nother." That's the way it was. The Cap'n was "satisfied with his life and always have been" and of his brother, adds "I sp'iled him as much as anybody." At any rate, the two have had not been in touch for 18 years. The sister-in-law was long dead, and now so too the brother, but not before drawing a will entrusting Cap'n Warren the final stage of the rearing of his two children . Caroline and Stephen (both attending Yale). The Cap'n, aware of his legal right of refusal, ponders ("When I'm caught in a clove hitch, I have to . think myself out of it") and decides to visit New York to "look things over." And so it was, the good Cap'n lands in Central Park West and a very good story begins. Seller Inventory # 007693

Bibliographic Details

Title: CAP'N WARREN'S CHILDREN

Publisher: A.L. Burt, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1911

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: NEAR FINE

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition, First Thus.

Book Type: Historical Fiction