Details

Title

Leaskdale, Ont.

Author

Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud)

Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

'Daily-Sketch' was a long-running British tabloid.

Genre

art reproduction

Call Number(s)

1001.SI.LMMGBM.PC.006a

Abstract

A postcard, postdated September 8, bearing a message in L.M. Montgomery's handwriting addressed to "Mr. Geo. B. MacMillan". George Boyd MacMillan (1881-1953) was a Scottish journalist and writer, and a favourite correspondent of L.M. Montgomery. The two were first introduced, by letter, in 1903, through an American writer who was developing a circle of literary pen friends. Although Montgomery and MacMillan only met briefly in-person, during her 1911 honeymoon in Scotland, their voluminous exchange of letters, postcards, and gifts continued until late 1941, just months before Montgomery's death. PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: "Your card received. Also [Daily sketches for which many?] thanks. I shall be answering your letter soon. This war is dreadful. Have you seen Kiplings fine poem? L.M.M."