Cornelius Mathews set out to give America a holiday book of its own, and he builds it around the Peabody family’s Thanksgiving reunion at the old homestead. A city merchant and his people, farmer-folk from the West, a fashionable lady and her son, a Thanksgiving sermon and the household cook Mopsey all crowd around the table.
A period piece of mid-century American domestic sentiment, of interest to readers tracing how Thanksgiving became a national tradition. Download the free EPUB.