One very intelligent patient, who was a companion of mine, and had read portions of my book, came to my room one morning with some verses which she had penciled the night previous, by moonlight, on the fly-leaf of her Bible, which she requested me to read, and judge if they were not appropriate to the character of my book.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
He gave her a card on which he had already penciled a few words, and waited, terribly anxious, for the result.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
She painfully penciled a note and handed it to him as she came past to the blackboard.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland