Details

Title

New Year Wishes

Author

Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud)

Collection

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

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

This poem was also published in Good Housekeeping in January 1936 under the title "I wish you." It was also published in The Blythes are Quoted (2009), under the title, "I wish you." The Blythes are Quoted was intended by Montgomery to be the ninth volume of the Anne series. The poem is situated in Part 1 of the book which includes poems written by Anne and her son, Walter Blythe, before the First World War. Part 1 also includes "The Piper," the poem mentioned in Rilla of Ingleside that was written by Walter Blythe before his death. The manuscript for The Blythes are Quoted was delivered by L.M. Montgomery to her publisher on April 23, 1942, one day before her death.

Genre

poetry

Abstract

Typescript poem entitled "New Year Wishes" signed by L.M. Montgomery and sent to George Boyd 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.