Josephine Preston Peabody papers, 1896-1924.

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Josephine Preston Peabody papers, 1896-1924.

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Correspondence consists primarily of 82 letters, 1899-1908, of friendship and love from Kahlil Gibran to Peabody; also drafts of two letters she wrote to him, and a long autobiographical letter she wrote to Frederic Fairchild Sherman in 1898. Compositions consist of poems and plays by Peabody including drafts of her comedy, The chameleon; two pencil drawing portraits she did; her notes on her talks with Gibran; two pencil drawing portraits he did of her; and a poem by Gibran. Also the privately printed sheet music of five songs by Peabody.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931

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Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, poet, and artist. He was born in Lebanon but spent much of his productive life in the United States. Gibran immigrated with his parents to America in 1895; and the family settled in Boston's South End. In his early teens, the artistry of his drawings caught the eye of his teachers, and in 1898 his drawings were used for book covers. In 1904, he held his first art exhibition in Boston, and in 1912 he settled in New York City...

Sherman, Frederic Fairchild, 1874-1940

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Sherman started the magazine Art in America in 1913 and remained its owner and editor until his death in 1940. He was also the author of numerous books on art. From the description of [Letters] 1917 [to] Bernard Berenson / [Frederic Fairchild Sherman] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 432051648 Art collectors, art critics, art historians, and private publishers; New York, N.Y. From the description of Frederic Fairchild and Julia Munson Sherman papers, 1874-197...

Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922

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Peabody was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the death of her father in 1882, the family moved to Dorchester, Mass. She attended Latin School in Boston, and was a special student at Radcliffe College, 1894-1896. She published fourteen volumes of poems and verse plays, and lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College, 1901-1903. A pacifist and feminist, she joined the Fabian Society in 1909, and wrote a prose play, Portrait of Mrs. W. (Mary Wollstonecraft). She died in Cambridge, Mass. For ...