The Lost Dryad

THE LOST DRYAD
ONE THOUSAND COPIES OF THIS BOOK HAVE BEEN PRINTED AT HILLACRE FOR THE UNITED WORKERS OF GREENWICH—EASTERN BRANCH, INCORPORATED.
Sincerely yours Frank R. Stockton
FRANK R. STOCKTON
PRINTED AT HILLACRE FOR THE EASTERN BRANCH OF THE UNITED WORKERS OF GREENWICH RIVERSIDE, CONN. 1912
Copyright, 1911, by The Curtis Publishing Co.
Copyright, 1912, by The United Workers of Greenwich.

A dozen years ago, when every one was still reading Rudder Grange and The Merry Chanter , Frank R. Stockton asked Mrs. Frederick Gotthold which of his stories she liked best. Her choice of the fairy tale, Old Pipes and The Dryad , pleased him. The fanciful stories he wrote for children were very near to his own heart.
Some time after this, when the publishers were preparing a new edition of Stockton, Mrs. Gotthold persuaded them to have printed for her a copy of Old Pipes , each page on a leaf of vellum. This she illuminated and decorated, bound it in leather and sent it to Mr. Stockton.
One day Mrs. Gotthold’s mail contained a parcel. Being opened, this proved to be a small leather-bound book of neatest manuscript, bearing on the inside cover this inscription:
To Mrs. Florence W. Gotthold, this little story—which was written for her, and of which there is no other copy—is gratefully presented by