Raymond Lincoln Kilgour

"The emphasis of the firm was always literary and upon quality rather than quantitiy. During the last three decades of the nineteenth century it ranked among the choicest publishing houses in the United States." Among the authors on their list: Christian Rossetti, Louisa May Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Susan Coolidge, William Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Juliana H. Ewing, Mary Mapes Dodge, and many others including Evelyn Whitaker, the author of the "Miss Toosey" Books.