The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale was a United States journalist and author.-Biography:Hale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at George B. Emerson's school there...

, and is her best-known work.

The first of the Peterkin stories appeared in 1867 in a magazine named Our Young Folks, later named St. Nicholas Magazine

St. Nicholas Magazine

St. Nicholas Magazine was a popular children's magazine, founded by Scribner's in 1873. The first editor was Mary Mapes Dodge, who continued her association with the magazine until her death in 1905. Dodge published work by the country's best writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Francis Hodgson...

. The series continued for nine years, and made the Peterkins a household word.

The collected stories were published in 1880 under the title The Peterkin Papers, and reprinted in 1960.