Viewing page 3 of 17

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

2327 N. High St.
Columbus, Ohio
January 15, 1950

Mr. Wolcott Gibbs,
25 W. 43rd Street
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Gibbs:

I have been mulling over WHO'S WHO for a couple of days, and have finally decided that you are the most likely Gibbs to help me get some light on a piece of sculpture by one Horatio Greenough.  Horatio did it for "Miss Gibbs of Newport", according to Tuckermann, and it was a "Monument to Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs".  Finding this monument is rather important to my making a catalogue of this neglected artist's work, and I hope that its discovery may also help make me a Ph.D.  

If you would have any information on the whereabouts of Miss Gibbs' Greenough, I shall appreciate your filling out the inclosed blank as much as possible.  Thank you for any help you may give me in this matter.

Sincerely yours,
signature ^[[Thomas B. Brumbaugh]]
Thomas B. Brumbaugh

response in pencil ^[[Dear Mr. Brumbaugh - 
Forgive this scrawl.  I am flat on my back with grippe & no other paper available.
You have the right family, I guess, but the wrong man since my information about my relatives has always been weak.  The only book on the subject I have at hand is a privately printed work called "The Gibbs Family of Rhode Island", written by my late uncle George Gibbs in 1933.  It is exhaustive, as such labors of love are apt to be, but I find no reference to Greenough in it, (over)