Since I have my notebook out on the Big Elm Farm, I will post a little more for you. I love the story so much, and I have collected a notebook about it. This is from the Wheeling Intelligencer, Novemeber 29,1899 NEW WEST VIRGINIA AUTHOR West Virginia's products are not confined to coal, timber, coke, iron and oil. Many of her sons and daughters shine in the circles of polite literature and ethics and none, we are sure, will take higher rank in these than Mr. Granville Davisson Hall, who announces the publication of a novel from his pen about Christmas, entitled "Daughter of the Elm, a Tale of the Virginia Border Before the War." The Atmosphere of the work is local, the scene being laid in the upper Monongahela Valley, and the work promises to recall forgotten tragedies in which some real people and events figure. Mr. Hall is a graceful and interesting writer, and his debut as a writer of fiction will, no doubt, add to a reputation already secured in the State of his birth and in communities of his former activity. From the Wheeling Intelligencer, December 26,1899 "DAUGHTER OF THE ELM." Some weeks ago the Intelligencer had occasion to anticipate the publication o f the novel written by a West Virginian, who has been long absent from the State, but who has never lost his interest in a community where the power and gracefulness of his pen instructed and interested the people of nearly a generation ago. The book is just now from the press, and after examining its attractive pages, we are sure the reading public will be edified and entertained in perusing the volume. Its power and recommendation to public interest do not lie altogether in the local atmosphere that is imparted to the story told. Nor do the historical facts around which are woven the romantic tale form the basis of its chief merit, for it is clever in plot, graceful in diction and charming in style. The characters who figure in it were real people, and the love story that illumines the pages serves as a foil to the tragical lines. From the Wheeling Intelligencer, December 21, 1899] THE NEW WEST VIRGINIA NOVEL The new West Virginia novel the "Daughter of the Elm," had a big run at Frank Stanton's Old City Book Store yesterday. There are only a few copies left of the first invoice. Those who have read the work pronounce it one of the most entertaining volumes of fiction yet put upon the literary market.