LETTER: Autograph letter signed, "Louise I. Guiney," to "My dear Miss Everson," February 5, 1901, 16 Pinckney St., Boston.
ALS, "Louise I. Guiney," to "My dear Miss Everson," February 5, 1901, 16 Pinckney St., Boston.
8vo.; 1 leaf, two pages.
Poet Louise Guiney (1861-1920) writes of her recent sale, for $40., of a presentation copy of The Queen Mother and Rosamond: "...a little dingy book that I cared not a pin for," inscribed, but not to her. She mentions her mother's domestic and health woes, as well as her own travel plans.
Guiney, born in Massachusetts, was part of Boston's "aesthetic revival” in the 1890s. Her Roman Catholicism and her literary conservatism—looking backwards to Romantic, 17th century and Civil War poets—were reflected in her sentimental style. After a number of years of travel to and from England, she settled there in 1901. She's known today in part for her role in "discovering" Khalil Gibran.
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