THE SPIRIT OF LOVE & OTHER POEMS SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 174/350 CHARLES GIBSON

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Should you have an issue or problem with your order, we request the opportunity to make amends or resolve the issue before feedback is left. Your satisfaction is our highest priority! Disclaimer: This item may be a de-commissioned library or from a Thrift Store. Item may not include its dust cover, access code and/or accessories. Charles Hammond Gibson, Jr. (1874–1954) Charles Hammond Gibson, Jr. (CHGJr.) attended private schools in Boston; St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire; and MIT’s School of Architecture (although he withdrew after one year). He continued his education with travels to Italy, France, and England. In London, he assisted the famous newspaper publisher, Lord Northcliffe, in the preparation of the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Exposition of 1894. As secretary to Lord Northcliffe, CHGJr. was able to do research at the British Museum and in France for a book he later wrote on French rural life, Two Gentlemen of Touraine, a critical and historical study of the Royal Chateaux of France. The book, which became a standard text on this subject, was published in 1899 under the pseudonym of Richard Sudbury. In 1907, CHGJr. published another book, Among French Inns, under his own name. From an early age, CHGJr. was interested in poetry and writing, and he published his first poem, a sonnet, in the Boston Transcript in 1894. He was also an unabashed Anglo- and Francophile and had many friends at the English royal court. He wrote poetry for the English royal family, and was especially proud of a letter he received from the young Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) thanking him for one of his poems. He maintained an active writing career until his death, publishing several volumes of poetry through “vanity presses.” A 1953 recording of Charles reading some of his poetry is included in Harvard’s Woodberry Collection of works by contemporary poets. He was at one time chairman of the Boston Authors Club, of which he was a charter member, having attended the organizational meeting at the home of Julia Ward Howe. Unfortunately, he never received the acclaim he felt he deserved. In addition to his career as a writer, CHGJr. was a volunteer member of the Boston Parks and Recreation Commission during the 1910s. In that capacity, he promoted his version of a “convenience station,” designed as a copy of the Petit Trianon at Versailles. When it was ultimately built, however, it was done in pink granite in the Beaux-Arts style of a classically inspired rotunda. Considerable controversy attended its building, in large measure because of friction between CHGJr. and the Art Commission, which accused him of building on the Commons to suit his own personal taste. Nevertheless, although the convenience station came to be known as “Gibson’s Folly,” it was built, and it still stands near the tennis courts. Friends that knew CHGJr. well, such as Lester Beck (who had been his part-time secretary), described Charles as a “very formal, patrician man … [who] always wore a suit and tie." According to Beck, he was “cash conscious” and “class conscious,” and employed only one handyman/butler who lived in the house and an elderly woman as a part-time servant. Beck went on to describe CHGJr. as “aloof and lonely,” a man who “didn’t make friends easily.” “Mr. Gibson was always thinking that things weren’t what they once were. Boston was changing. Harvard admitted people who once would never have gone there… He lived for this house … the house was his passion...” CHGJr.'s obituary, which he wrote himself, gives a somewhat different picture of him as a “poet and horticulturist who delighted in being designated as a ‘proper Bostonian,' whose friends had included Mrs. Jack Gardner, members of the Court Circle of London[,] and Newport society leaders, and whose Boston and Nahant homes were period museums of the years from the Victorian Era until today…”

Price: 375 USD

Location: Corona, California

End Time: 2024-11-30T19:17:32.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD