Hannah Jane’s Reviews > Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith > Status Update
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A book of letters has never made me laugh so much! All the talk about henhouses is such a delight to read:
In one of Edmund Ware Smith's letters: "I am the only man anywhere in these parts with E.B. White as a henhouse consultant."
— Sep 27, 2026 10:41AM
In one of Edmund Ware Smith's letters: "I am the only man anywhere in these parts with E.B. White as a henhouse consultant."
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E.B. White: "I'm glad your fall from the roof did no serious damage. A man who puts a porch on a henhouse is, I'm afraid, asking for it."
Edmund Ware Smith's response: "You are due a measure of cool reproof for your slurring thrust at one who puts a porch on his henhouse. I put that porch on to give my henhouse distinction. Do you know of any other henhouse which admiring neighbors call, 'The Chicken Hilton.'"
— Oct 08, 2026 06:05AM
Edmund Ware Smith's response: "You are due a measure of cool reproof for your slurring thrust at one who puts a porch on his henhouse. I put that porch on to give my henhouse distinction. Do you know of any other henhouse which admiring neighbors call, 'The Chicken Hilton.'"