And another odd Scudder rabbit hole. Truthfully, I'm not even certain where this book came from. I don't remember ever buying it, so it must have been a gift from someone over the years. It's John Scudder's (1798-1855) 1849 book Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers About the Heathen. Obviously, not every Scudder who went to India to serve as doctors and missionaries was a liberal-minded as our family propaganda paints them out to be. I'm going to definitely do some research on this little gem.
I'm currently teaching COR 303, which is essentially a book about how history works, as compared to an actual history course. I think I'm going to bring in John Scudder's book, and Vida Scudder's Socialism and Character and On Journey, and Samuel Scudder's Every Butterflies: A Group of Biographies. Actually, I think Ida (I haven't even mentioned her, although I did visit her hospital in India), Vida and Samuel were all within a generation of each other. That would make an interesting novel
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