TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the author & journalist LIDA ROSE McCABE, the first woman reporter who traveled to the Klondike, to GEORGE HYDE PRESTON, the father of John Hyde Preston and author of stories set in Alaska. McCabe, Lida Rose (1865-1938). American author and journalist who was the first female reporter who traveled to the Klondike. Literature

New York, August 9, 1930., 1930. Very good. - Over 160 words typed on 9-1/2 inch high by 6 inch wide "The Madison Square" stationery. The author and journalist Lida Rose McCabe, who was the first woman reporter to travel to the Klondike, writes to George Hyde Preston about his stories set in Alaska, "Your Alaska Memoir interests me. Recalling your effort to secure Eskimo stories, I recalled after you left a page story I had in N.Y. Tribune, Sunday, Oct 1, 1916 under caption: "The Eskimo 'Peril' White not Yellow." . "It may have something that you could use or it may be suggestive." As she'd lost his card and couldn't remember his address, she mentions she is writing to him care of his son's publisher, the author and historian John Hyde Preston, "The growing fame of your gifted young son may see it safely thru." She mentions her book "Ardent Adrienne: The Life of Madame de La Fayette" which is with her editor, "Yesterday I went over with editor first half of Ardent Adrienne galley." She mentions his son's book "Appleton's editor (junior) is reading Anthony Wayne. Finds it well done and marvels at the Author's youth." She wished him luck with his "Alaska Adventure". Signed "L.R. McCabe". George Hyde Preston has annotated that he has answered at the top left and signed with his initials. There are a couple of tiny spots of browning. Folded for mailing, else very good. The author and journalist Lida Rose McCabe (1865-1938) was the first woman reporter to travel to the Klondike, reporting from Alaska. She wrote for several newspapers and was the Paris correspondent for the New-York Tribune and the American Press Association. She still found time, throughout her busy career to write several books, "Don't You Remember", a reminiscence of early days in Columbus, Ohio being her first. She was also the author of "The American Girl at College", published in 1893, and "Ardent Adrienne: The Life of Madame de La Fayette", published in 1930 at the time of this letter. The father of the author & historian John Hyde Preston, George Hyde Preston (1857-1937) practiced law in Seattle until, in his words, he "was swept into Alaska in the rush of 1897." He spent 4 years as a prospector, unsuccessfully digging for gold, before returning to Seattle where he started writing short stories set in Alaska. George's son, the novelist, essayist, historian and critic John Hyde Preston (1906-1980), was one of the "lost writers of 1930s Connecticut". He was the author of numerous books including "A Gentleman Rebel: The Exploits of Anthony Wayne", "The Liberals", "Revolution 1776", "Portrait of a Woman", etc.