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| Image from Story 1072, "Bumpy Flies Without Wings." |
I've just uploaded the fourth, and last (for the foreseeable future) installment of The Complete Little Stories for Bedtime by Thornton W. Burgess. It covers 1915, which was a big year for Burgess. He wrote story 1000, introduced his "Quaddy" brand, and met thousands of his fans in person at a "monster meeting" at Bronx Park sponsored by the Bedtime Stories Club of the New York Globe. The pantomime extravaganza, "Peter Rabbit in Dreamland," had its debut at the end of the year, also sponsored by The Globe. And Burgess wrote his first real piece of anti-recreational hunting propaganda, a series of stories featuring the Bob White family, setting up his future relationship with conservationist William T. Hornaday.
This one took a little more work than the other volumes, including many hours at the New York Public Library browsing microfilm, but it has inspired an audio project on the otherwise little documented "Peter Rabbit in Dreamland," coming soon.
