Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Boston
correspondent
Gretchen Osgood Warren
(Boston, 1871 - 1961, Boston)
DateFebruary 1891
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.005350
eMuseum ID718090
EmbARK ObjectID26443
TMS Source ID10197
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis luncheon invitation from Gretchen Osgood Warren to Isabella brims with affection and playfully describes a fantastical and enticing menu. Isabella noted her enthusiastic response in the upper right-hand corner—“Yes!” to March 6 and “Yes!!!” to March 13.
Transcript:
8 Mount Vernon Place [Boston]
[February 1891]
Thurs. March 6, 7.30 Yes!
Thurs. “ 13 1 – Yes!!!
Dearest Isabella,
I’m nothing if not greedy! A great friend Mary Willard, is coming to me for 10 days from New York—alas! Just after my hen party as it turns out. So will you come again to us, on the 13th for lunch at one? Please.
Menu.
Scallops in extremis
Lobster de Profundis
Grapefruit in extenso
and other tempting viands ad libitum
Your hopeful & very grasping
Gretchen
Transcript:
8 Mount Vernon Place [Boston]
[February 1891]
Thurs. March 6, 7.30 Yes!
Thurs. “ 13 1 – Yes!!!
Dearest Isabella,
I’m nothing if not greedy! A great friend Mary Willard, is coming to me for 10 days from New York—alas! Just after my hen party as it turns out. So will you come again to us, on the 13th for lunch at one? Please.
Menu.
Scallops in extremis
Lobster de Profundis
Grapefruit in extenso
and other tempting viands ad libitum
Your hopeful & very grasping
Gretchen
BibliographyNotesChristina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), pp. 45, 58, no. 1, cat. 10.
MarksNotesStationery stamped: 8, Mount Vernon Place
Gretchen Osgood Warren
early 20th century
Gretchen Osgood Warren
early 20th century
Gretchen Osgood Warren
early 20th century
