Her friend and editor, George Merriam, was the founder of what today is Merriam-Webster, Inc. It was he who asked this warm and sparkling woman to write her memoirs and place them into his care for publication.Caroline Clapp Briggs is not a name most Americans would recognize. She left no great works, and though she knew many prominent people of her day, was not a public figure herself.Yet her memoirs are delightful to read for what they reveal of...