books.google.com - A teacher of English and English History at the Friends School in Baltimore, Letitia Stockett was inspired to write her whimsical history of the city when a friend told her that nothing much had been done in the way of a history of Baltimore since J. Thomas Scharf's The Chronicles of Baltimore (1874)....http://books.google.com/books/about/Baltimore.html?id=FLr_qTISHP4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBaltimore
