Uncle Sam Ward and his circle

by Maud Howe Elliott

It's Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa's packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red?nosed reindeer, Santa flies?Arnett Benson?Caprock?Cherry Point?Dunbar?Manhattan Heights?Tech Terrace?University Pines?Bayless Atkins?Bowie?Northridge?Southgate"Ho, ho ho!" laughs Santa. "Merry Christmas, Lubbock!"

699 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

Maud Howe Elliott (1854 -1948) was an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sisters, Laura E. Richards and Florence Hall, on their mother's biography The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916).

She was married to the British artist & illustrator, John Elliott (1858 – 1925) who painted the murals in the Boston Central Library. Her father was Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins School for the Blind.

Her other works included A Newport Aquarelle (1883); Phillida (1891); Mammon, later published as Honor: A Novel (1893); Roma Beata, Letters from the Eternal City (1903); The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe (1911); Three Generations (1923); Lord Byron's Helmet (1927); John Elliott, The Story of an Artist (1930); My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford (1934); and This Was My Newport (1944).