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Politicians who knew Senator Quay are familiar with the little kegs of sauerkraut he sent to them every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, says the New York Times. He was as regular with them as Rhode Island senators are with their turkeys. Nothing pleased Senator Quay more than to have somebody praise his sauerkraut. He superintended the making of it himself on his Beaver county farm and always had a supply at his home in Philadelphia. Thus it happened that he sent a keg to Bram Stoker, who was in that city at the time with Sir Henry Irving. The senator did not say in his note that the keg contained sauerkraut. He wrote simply, “A little delicacy from my farm I hope you’ll enjoy.”
This short short story is reprinted from the Oswego Daily Palladium [New York] (June 27, 1904): 3.
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Browning, J.E. (2012). Story of Senator Quay (1904). In: Browning, J.E. (eds) The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330840_24
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