Bound manuscript newspaper of "The Waif," composed by the Literary and Musical Society of Klamathon.

"The Waif" manuscript newspaper was published by The Literary and Musical Society of Klamathon. Klamathon was a late 19th-century lumber and milling town on the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border and the modern town of Hornbrook. The literary society responsible for the present effort called itself only "The Club," and apparently also had difficulty determining a name for the publication, according to the foreword, which comprises a three-page deliberation on various potential titles. The leaf following the manuscript title page lists a female editor, Sarah V. Barnes, and two assistant editors, John Eknall and Maud Adamson; Barnes was responsible for all of the forematter, including an entertaining apologia for a lack of any recent news from the Boer War in South Africa. The articles themselves were solicited from society contributors, and are a mix of current events, biographies, and literary pieces, including a biography of the recently deceased Vice-President Garret Hobart and a description of the William Lloyd Garrison statue on Boston Common, and several shorter pieces in the tradition of "Pearls of Wisdom" and "Literary News and Notes."

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