Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Louise Clappe

Born: July 28, 1819
Died: February 11, 1906 (aged 86)
Bio: Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe was born in New Jersey, spent most of her youth and young adult life in Massachusetts, and later moved out West to California with her husband Fayette Clapp.