Five Minute StoriesLaura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850 1943) was an American writer. She born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a high profile family. During her life, she wrote over 90 books, including children's, biographies,poetry, and others. A well known children's poem for which she is noted is theliterary nonsense verse Eletelephony. Her father was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an abolitionist and the founder of thePerkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the