Word: wilma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent issues the revered Atlantic Monthly published three articles on the life of Abraham Lincoln by a Miss Wilma Frances Minor, based upon hitherto unknown Lincolniana in the possession of Miss Minor. The first article was met with a storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle...
That the Lincoln documents from the collection of Wilma Frances Minor, published in facsimile in the recent issues of the Atlantic Monthly, purporting to be the hand of Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, Sarah Colhoun, and Matilda Cameron, were all penned by the same author, is the hypothesis suggested by Maurice H. Hilton 1G, as the result of a searching graphological investigation. That this hand is revealed in a letter signed "W. F. Minor" is further suggested by the comparison and analysis of the hand writing exhibited in all the letters...
...BONNEY FAMILY?Ruth Suckow? Knopf ($2.50). There are two old Bonneys, four little Bonneys?Warren, Sarah, Wilma & Wilfred. Mr. Bonney, a country clergyman, moves from the humble but well-beloved village of Morning Sun to a college town so that his children may have the advantage of college education. When this has had its effect, redheaded, eccentric Warren is a well-tamed professor; Sarah is a kind, sensible, placid young spinster; Wilma is married and faraway; Wilfred, who had especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney...