L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.
Donor
Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.
Note
The lines quoted by Montgomery are from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline," published in 1847.
Genre
art reproduction
Call Number(s)
1001.SI.LMMGBM.PC.025a
Abstract
A postcard, postdated November 11 1907, 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: " 'Away to the northward Blomidon rose and forests old and aloft - on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents.' Longfellow."
