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1940 Emerson Sc 861 signed Edward Waldo Forbes, to Wunder
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1940 Emerson Sc 861 signed Edward Waldo Forbes, to Wunder Emerson's first grandson, Ralph Waldo Forbes, enjoying the company of his two grandfathers, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Forbes. Emerson's family gave him enormous comfort in his declining year ... Read More
Item Specifics
- Country
- United States
- Catalog Number
- 861
- Stamp Type
- General Issue
- Stamp Format
- Single
- Year of Issue
- 1940
Item Description
1940 Emerson Sc 861 signed Edward Waldo Forbes, to WunderEmerson's first grandson,
Ralph Waldo Forbes,
enjoying the company of his two grandfathers,
Ralph
Waldo Emerson and John Forbes.
Emerson's family gave him enormous
comfort in his declining years.
Courtesy of the concord Free Public Library
FAMOUS AMERICANS SERIES of 1940
SCOTT 861 -- RALPH WALDO EMERSON
SIGNED by
Postmaster of Boston, MA
R. E. Fellers, Superintendent, div. of Stamps
Edward Waldo Forbes
Grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Date Born: 1873
Place Born: Naushon (Island), MA
Date Died: 1969
Harvard art historian and director of the Fogg Art
Museum. Forbes
was born into the quintessential "Boston Brahmin" family. His father,
William
Hathaway Forbes, organized the Bell Telephone Company with Alexander
Graham
Bell. His mother, Edith Emerson Forbes, was the daughter of the poet
Ralph Waldo
Emerson. In 1899,
while
traveling in Europe, he bought his first Italian masterwork, a painting
then
considered to be a Tintoretto. Norton's son, Richard who was teaching
in Rome,
convinced Forbes to lend the picture to the Fogg Art Museum, which had
opened in
1895. Forbes joined the
Board of Trustees at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1903, a position
he
subsequently held for sixty years. He married Margaret
Laighton
(1885-1966), a
lighthouse keeper's daughter, in 1907. In 1909 he was appointed
director of the
Fogg. He retired from Harvard
and the Fogg in 1944.
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