‡[The
Knickerbocker
Press
New York]
Made in the United States of America
To
DOROTHY BINNEY PUTNAM
UNDER WHOSE ROOFTREE THIS
BOOK WAS WRITTEN
FOREWORD
IN re-reading the manuscript of this book I find I didn’t allow myself to be born. May I apologize for this unconventional oversight as well as for other more serious ones—and some not so serious?
I myself am disappointed not to have been able to write a “work”—(you know, Dickens’ Works, Thackeray’s Works), but my dignity wouldn’t stand the strain. I can only hope, therefore, that some of the fun of flying the Atlantic has sifted into my pages and that some of the charm and romance of old ships may be seen to cling similarly to the ships of the air.
A. E.
INTRODUCTION
By Marion Perkins
Miss Perkins is Head Worker at Denison House, Boston’s second oldest settlement, with which Amelia Earhart has been identified for two years.