A Nantucket ghost walks again--over the teacups
By: by Edward G. Freehafer.
Contributors: Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912, supposed author.; Wentworth, Ruth Starbuck, supposed author.
Publisher: New York Public Library
Published: 1940
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Tea -- Nantucket.; Literary forgeries and mystifications.; Nantucket (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
Notes: A discussion of the authorship of a letter, dated from Starbuck Plantation, Nantucket Island, 1745, signed Ruth Starbuck Wentworth; probably written by Robert Collyer.  The text (p. 5-9) is reprinted from the Inquirer and Mirror, Nantucket, September 29, 1877.  In 1885 the letter was published with the title An idyl from Nantucket, with a note by Rev. Robert Collyer.
"Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of October, 1940."