Details

Title

Around the Camp Fire, Alqonquin, National Park, Ontario

Author

Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud)

Collection

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

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

Montgomery's note likely references a postcard received from MacMillan: other notes on her postcards to MacMillan reference well-known Scottish sites shown on postcards he sent to her. The best-known "Seven Sisters" site in the British Isles is a series of chalk cliffs overlooking the English Channel at the edge of the South Downs in East Sussex, England, but it is unclear if this is the location Montgomery is referring to here.

Genre

art reproduction

Call Number(s)

1001.SI.LMMGBM.PC.025b

Abstract

A postcard, postdated November 18 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: "The 'Seven Sisters' are beautiful. I envy [their?] owner. Is he their owner. That is, does he get any [re-payment out of them?]? L.M.M."