Two Autograph Letters Signed and two Autograph Sentiments on cards.

New York: 13 April 1884 & 5 November 1886.

Price: $250.00


About the item

Letters are one page and three pages. 1 vols. 12mo. Letters and one of the cards tipped to two larger sheets of blue paper. Fine.

Item #43681

Gibson (1850-1896) was a nature writer and illustrator. He illustrated S. A. Drake's In the Heart of the White Mountains, C. D. Warner's New South, and E. P. Roe's Nature's Serial Story; and his own books, The Complete American Trapper (1876; vised, 1880, as Camp Life in the Woods); Pastoral Days: or, Memories of a New England Year (1880); Highways and Byways :I882); Happy Hunting Grounds (1886); Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine (189f); Sharp Eyes: a Rambler's Calendar (1891); Our Edible Mushrooms and Toadstools (1895); Eye Spy: Afield with Vature among Flowers and Animate Things (1897); and My Studio Neighbours (1898).

In the earlier of the two letters, addressed to Rev. E.V. Strickland, Gibson thanks him for the "kind expressions of your esteem and hasten to send you what I hope will meet your desires. The quotations are from Wordsworth ... He has touched me more deeply than any other poet and many of his verses I believe to be divinely inspired."

In the second letter, Gibson writes to Benjamin W. Austin, thanking him for his election as "honorary member" of the N.W. Literary and Historical Society."

The two signed sentiments Gibson refers two are from Wordsworth: "All which we behold is full of blessings." and "Nature never did betray The heart that loved her."