Ellsworth Mary Ellen - Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children

Gertrude Chandler Warner

and The Boxcar Children

Mary Ellen Ellsworth

illustrated by Marie DeJohn

Albert Whitman & Company

Morton Grove, Illinois

S OURCES

Albert Whitman & Company, Morton Grove, Illinois. Several pages of autobiographical material, and various articles.

Aspinock Historical Society, Putnam, Connecticut. Holdings: newspaper files, local histories, photographic records, and Gertrude Chandler Warner Reminiscences, 1972.

Brumbaugh, Mary. Library director, Putnam Public Library, 1996.

Copies of thank-you notes from Warner and Welles to library staff.

Child, Mary. Family Reminiscences, 1996.

Devlin, Jo Ellen. Childrens librarian, Putnam Public Library.

Conversations with author, 1991, 1992.

Dorman, Janet English. Student in Gertrude Warners class and niece of Esther Welles. Reminiscences, 1996.

Evans, Ray. A Few Reflections I Have about Gertrude Warner, 1992, 1996.

Flagg, Ruth. Student in Gertrude Warners first-grade class. Owner of silhouette.

Conversation with author, 1996.

Flight, Vera. Student Reminiscences, 1994.

Franklin, Isabel. Former teacher, Putnam Elementary School.

Conversations with author, 1992, 1996.

Huss, Ruth. Church Reminiscences, 1996.

Miller, Robert. Past President of the Aspinock Historical Society, Putnam, Connecticut. Loan of some early Gertrude Chandler Warner editions, photographs, and conversations with author, 1992, 1996.

Mistark, Tracy Stone. Owner of thank-you note. Conversation with author, 1993.

Neal, Courtney. Student researcher, Putnam High School, 1992.

Noonan, Betty. Family Reminiscences and Mementos, 1996.

Pempack, Louise. Reminiscences, 1996.

Putnam Patriot. Articles on Miss Warner and other family members, various dates.

Putnam Public Library. Gertrude Chandler Warner manuscript collection.

Colleen Wittemores reference and teaching materials.

Putnam Town Directories, 1888-1964. Putnam Public Library and Aspinock Historical Society.

Rubin, Caroline. An Editors Reminiscences, 1996.

Shaw, Mrs. Kevin. Neighborhood Reminiscences, 1992.

Snow, Edith W Family Reminiscences, 1996.

Spooner, Earl. Owner of the Gertrude Chandler Home on South Main Street.

Information on the Chandler home, 1995, 1996.

Warner, Frances. Endicott and I. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.

. Groups and Couples. Boston: Riverside Press, 1923.

Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Centennial Souvenir: 1848-1948: The Congregational Church, Putnam. Putnam, Conn. Chase Printery, 1948.

. A Sunday Afternoon Ride in 1898 and Thereafter, in Perspectivesof Putnam. Edited by Margaret M. Weaver. Putnam, Conn. Wimco Printing, 1980, pp. 63-9.

Weaver, Margaret M. Reminiscences, 1996.

Wittemore, Colleen. Classroom teacher, Putnam Elementary School.

Owner of reference and teaching materials on Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Conversations with author, 1991.

Ziegler, Jan. Her Boxcar Children Delight Young Readers. Courier, NorwichBulletin, April 19, 1977, pp. 4, 12.

I NDEX

Numerals in italic type indicate photographs or illustrations.

Alden Children: see Boxcar Children

Alices Adventures in Wonderland,

American National Red Cross,

Anderson, Rev. Lelia,

Atlantic Monthly,

Avery, John,

Barnard, Henry,

Benny Uncovers a Mystery,

Boxcar Children,

Boxcar Children, The,

Boxcar Children Mysteries, The,

Bus Station Mystery,

Caboose Mystery,

Carpenter, Marcia Jane Chandler (grandmother),

Carpenter, John A. (grandfather),

Chicago, Illinois,

Child, Annie,

Child, Bertha,

Children of the Harvest,

city court, Putnam,

Congregational church, Putnam,

Connecticut,

Danielson,

Groton,

Pomfret,

Putnam,

Windham County,

Woodstock,

Danielson, Connecticut,

Emblem Club,

Fifth District School House,

Gertrude C. Warner Library,

Gertrude Chandler Warner Museum,

Golliwog at the Sea-Side, The,

Golliwog at the Zoo, The,

Good Americans: First Lessons in Citizenship;

First Lessons for the Littlest Ones,

Gregory, Dorothy Lake,

Groton, Connecticut,

Harpers,

Harvard Law School,

House Beautiful,

House of Delight, The,

Houseboat Mystery,

inventions, early 1900s,

Israel Putnam School,

Kinney, Emma,

Ladies Home Journal,

Lifes Minor Collisions,

Little Folks,

Mikes Mystery,

Mystery Behind the Wall,

Mystery Ranch,

Ottenheimer, Dr.,

Overlook, Dr.,

Pages of King Arthur,

Peter Piper, Missionary Parakeet,

Pleasures and Palaces,

Pomfret, Connecticut,

Putnam, Connecticut,

Putnam Elementary School,

Putnam, General Israel,

Putnam Public Library,

Revolutionary War,

Rhode Island,

silhouettes,

Star Stories for Little Folks,

Surprise Island,

Topsy,

Trains,

Upton, Florence,

Warner, Charles (great-uncle),

Warner, (Judge) Edgar (father),

Warner, Frances (sister),

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

birth of,

childhood of,

death of,

education of,

and music,

publicity work of,

reading,

retirement,

teaching,

and trains,

traveling,

volunteer work,

work in publishing,

writing,

Warner, Ichabod,

Warner, Jane (Jennie) Elizabeth Carpenter (mother),

Warner, John (brother),

Welles, Esther,

Windham County, Connecticut,

Windows into Alaska,

Woman of the Year Award,

Woodshed Mystery,

Woodstock, Connecticut,

World in a Barn, The,

World on a Farm, The,

World War I,

Yale University,

Yellow House Mystery, The,

YWCA,

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