Marjory Harkness

"The strange fishbasket Mrs. Harkness found on her kitchen chair one Sunday morning was not a fisherman's creel but 'a coarse splint container associated with the late itinerant fishcart.' Poking out of it were the lost diaries and papers of Captain Bradbury Jewell, pioneer settler of the New Hampshire north country. With their appearance began a three-year labor: deciphering the faded and dog's-eared sheets and extracting their significance; and...