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- 1 2 The Peterkin Papers - (Not so) Shocking Secrets of the Hale Family, New England Historical Society
- 1 2 Lucretia Peabody Hale, Online Encyclopedia Britannica
- ↑ R. Gordon Kelly, Children's Periodicals of the United States, pages 331, 332, 341, Greenwood Press, 1984
- ↑ Lucretia P. Hale, The Peterkins Are Obliged to Move, St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, May 1878, pages 458-461
- ↑ Lucretia P. Hale, The Peterkin Celebrate the Fourth of July, The St. Nicholas Anthology, pages 12-16, Greenwich House, 1983
- ↑ Lucretia P. Hale, About Elizabeth Eliza’s Piano
