1900: A New Book?

1900-01-17

J.G. is now studying Architecture at Harvard.  In this letter, he responds to a book suggestion from his mother: "The V. le Duc seems like a great deal but I would like it very much as it is the very best thing of the kind." Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and theorist. It is believed that after J.G.'s death Emily Sibley Watson gave his architecture books to Claude Bragdon. From the letter, we don't know which of Viollet-le-Duc's many books Emily might have considered purchasing for her son.

Photo of J.G. and friend by Rochester photographer Joseph Ernest Mock, date unknown.

In this letter, J.G. asks his mother to "please send me a half a dozen of the Mock pictures." Perhaps this was the picture he is referring to.