Lucy Maud Montgomery's Ephraim Weber (1870-1956): "a slight degree of literary recognition".

The article discusses the life and works of Ephraim Weber, a Pennsylvania-German Mennonite in Berlin, Germany. It mentions Weber's and Lucy Maud Montgoomery's 40-year epistolary relationship which was revealed by Wilfrid Eggleston. It describes how Eggleston admires the quantity of Weber and Montgomery's correspondence and label him as his first spiritual or literary father. It recounts how Weber struggled most of his life to become a poet, essayist, novelist as well as achieve a scholastic level. It notes how Weber's image reminds the people of various possible constructions in the shifting into a culturally-determined ways of reading.