"For us, our house is not insentient matter—it has a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals, and solicitudes, and deep sympathies; it is of us, and we are in its confidence, and live in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never come home from an absence that its face does not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome—and we can not enter it unmoved."
—Mark Twain, 1896
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

As I was perusing the halls at Yale University, I slipped into the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where I came upon this photograph. I believe I was in Room 26. There were other photographs, but this one caught me unawares.


Four on a Bench

General Collection, Yale University

Note
Russian caption on verso
Subject
Stepun, Fedor 1884-1965
Fondaminskii, Ilia 1879-1948
Bunin, Ivan Alekseevich 1870-1953
Demidov, I. P.

Expatriate authors
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1 comment:

ilva said...

8 days since your last post... Where are you?!

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