Details

Title

Room in which Burns was born, - Alloway

Subtitle

[postcard]

Statement of Responsibility

MacMillan, G. B. (George Boyd)

Author

MacMillan, G. B. (George Boyd)

Abstract

A postcard, postdated August 1, 1905, bearing a message in George Boyd MacMillan's handwriting addressed to "Miss L.M. Montgomery". 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: "I am writing this card in the room you see portrayed here. The bed in the corner was where the poet was born. Homely place isn't it? [P.S. this pen might have been the one used by the poet too; it is so beastly scratchy!] GBM."

Place of Publication

Alloway, Scotland

Date of Publication

1905 Show more1905-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

Other LMM Collections. Special Items.

Donor

Donated by Joanne Craig.

Genre

art reproduction