Feb
14
The Gist of Whist, and Other Literary Surprises
My Aunt Dana launched me on a new track of research last month. She had been looking through old books on her bookshelf and noticed that a couple of them had G. Oliver Riggs’ signature inside the front cover. The books, she was surprised to see, were not music-related. One was a Temple Shakespeare 1895 edition of Hamlet, which contained a few pages of handwritten notes.
Other books that had belonged to G. Oliver were an 1895 edition of Homer’s The Iliad, an 1894 edition of The Human Body by Henry Newell Martin, The Knightes Tale by Chaucer and The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
Dana also found books that contained the signature of Mrs. G. Oliver Riggs, aka G. Oliver’s wife, Islea.
Other books that had belonged to G. Oliver were an 1895 edition of Homer’s The Iliad, an 1894 edition of The Human Body by Henry Newell Martin, The Knightes Tale by Chaucer and The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
Dana also found books that contained the signature of Mrs. G. Oliver Riggs, aka G. Oliver’s wife, Islea.
