Katharine Wright, Wilbur and Orville’s younger sister, loved to read.
In honor of National Library Week, here is a quotation from Katharine about books:
It does my heart good to get hold of a book that doesn’t “hit you between the eyes” or “grip you” or do anything but let you drift along with it, in company with pleasant thoughts and a new idea or two.
Katharine wrote these lines in a letter to her future husband Harry Haskell, about 1924.
Katharine Wright reading on porch of Hawthorn Hill home in Oakwood, 1920 (photo ms1_26-5-4)