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Letter of Kahlil Gibran to Marie Louise Watters, New York, Aug. 24, 1929
Letter of Kahlil Gibran to Marie Louise Watters, New York, Aug. 24, 1929
 
Dear Marie Louise, 
I am delighted to hear that you are coming to New York sometime in September. It will be so good to see you again. I have not been well-and I have been out of the world for a long time, and my heart is full of deep silence, unsung songs. And I am extremely restless. All these are signs of old age. Perhaps they are signs of a second youth in that I feel I must express myself in new forms of beauty. Do let me know more about your coming East. With exception of a short visit to this or that place now New York, I shall be free throughout the month of September. Please remember me in kindliness to your mother, and then to other members of your family. 
Ever faithfully, 
Kahlil 
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Marie Louise Watters was a close friend of Gibran’s, the two met in Greenwich Village at the Arts Student League in 1918 where they both attended a ceramics course and remained friends until Gibran’s death in 1931.
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Letter of Kahlil Gibran To Mary Haskell, May 26, 1916

Letter of Kahlil Gibran To Mary Haskell, May 26, 1916

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Letter of Kahlil Gibran to Orrick Johns, October 15, 1915
Letter of Kahlil Gibran to Orrick Johns, October 15, 1915
 
Letter to poet Orrick Glenday Johns (June 2, 1887 – July 8, 1946), in part: "How more than gracious of you to send me this remarkable sonnet. It delights me exceedingly, and though it reveals a world beyond my reach I cannot but be moved by it. And what is this in life that sustains us, we poor children of hunger and thirst, but that which intensifies our thirst and deepens our hunger? Is it not the unattainable that loves and comforts us? and how well you have expressed the unattainable in your sonnet. And may I not know more of you and your work? Indeed it would give me a real pleasure to read your poetry. And if some happy chance should find you again in this city, I would be very glad to see you and talk with you…many thanks for that wonderful sonnet." 
The recipient of this letter, poet Orrick Johns, was part of a literary group that included luminaries T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. In 1912, Johns rose to literary prominence after winning a poetry contest for his piece 'Second Avenue,' ousting Edna St. Vincent Millay's famed 'Renascence.' His next collection, 'Asphalt and Other Poems' was published in 1917; the warm approval Gibran lavished on him here may have been regarding a sonnet destined for that book.
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Letter of Kahlil Gibran to Thomas Lynch Raymond (undated).
Letter of Kahlil Gibran to Thomas Lynch Raymond (undated). 
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Thomas Lynch Raymond, Jr. (April 26, 1875 – October 4, 1928) served two non-consecutive terms as Mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1915 to 1917 and again from 1925 to 1928.
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Lettere a Mayy di Gibràn Khalìl Gibràn, versione dall'arabo di Maria Amalia De Luca, prefazione di Andrea Borruso, "Quaderni del Mediterraneo", 2, 1981

Lettere a Mayy di Gibràn Khalìl Gibràn, versione dall'arabo di Maria Amalia De Luca, prefazione di Andrea Borruso, "Quaderni del Mediterraneo", 2, 1981, pp. 29–127.

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Letters from Byblos, No. 28, Byblos: 2024.

Letters from Byblos, No. 28, Byblos: 2024.

 
 
 
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Letters from Charlotte Teller to Ameen Rihani

Letters from Charlotte Teller to Ameen Rihani 1910-1912c (33 letters) 

Source: Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies/Ameen Rihani Organization

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Letters of Kahlil Gibran to Archbishop Antonious Bashir

Letters of Kahlil Gibran to Archbishop Antonious Bashir
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Gibran’s letters to Archbishop Antonious Bashir were unknown and unpublished until November 11, 2004 when they appeared in the original Arabic in Al-Mulhaq, the weekly literary supplement for the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar. According to An-Nahar, these letters remained hidden among the archives of the Greek Orthodox Diocese in North America. It appears that Archbishop Philip Saliba was one day searching in the old files of his predecessor, Antonious Bashir, when he accidentally found these letters. Bashir was the translator of The Prophet into Arabic. The Lebanese newspaper adds that these letters acquire great importance as they constitute, on the one hand, a dialogue between the author and his translator, and on the other hand, they form part of Gibran’s great literary heritage of which many hidden treasures have not yet been discovered.

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Letters of Kahlil Gibran to Julia Ellsworth Ford
Letters of Kahlil Gibran to Julia Ellsworth Ford
 
Source: Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Julia Ellsworth Ford papers, Call Number: YCAL MSS 638, Box: 1, Folder: 29
 
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Letters of Kahlil Gibran to Witter Bynner
Letters of Kahlil Gibran to Witter Bynner
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Harold Witter Bynner, also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968) was an American poet, writer and scholar. While a student he took on the nickname "Hal" by which his friends would know him for the rest of his life. Bynner was friendly with Kahlil Gibran and introduced the writer to his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. 
Harvard University - Houghton Library / Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968, recipient. Letters from various correspondents, 1900-1958. MS Am 1629 (80-90). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Maria Amalia De Luca, Le lettere di Gibràn a Mayy Ziyàdah, "Oriente Moderno", LX, 1980

Maria Amalia De Luca, Le lettere di Gibràn a Mayy Ziyàdah, "Oriente Moderno", LX, 1980, pp. 123–131.

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Mary Haskell Minis, Diary (undated) [Folder 226]
Mary Haskell Minis, Diary (undated) [Folder 226] 
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Copies of the records of Haskell's meetings with Kahlil Gibran from earlier diaries.
 
Minis Family Papers, 1739-1948, Subseries 2.3. Diaries, 1894-1944 and undated, Minis Family Papers #2725, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Mary Haskell Minis, Diary, September 1911-April 1912 [Folder 227]
Records of Haskell's visits to Gibran in New York City. Contains a letter from Arthur Farwell, the president of the American Music Society.
 
Minis Family Papers, 1739-1948, Subseries 2.3. Diaries, 1894-1944 and undated, Minis Family Papers #2725, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Mayy Ziyadah, Rasaʼil Mayy [Letters of Mayy Ziyadah to various recipients, including Kahlil Gibran], Beirut: Dar Bayrut, 1954.

Mayy Ziyadah, Rasaʼil Mayy [Letters of Mayy Ziyadah to various recipients, including Kahlil Gibran], Beirut: Dar Bayrut, 1954.

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Rasaʼil Jubran [Letters of Kahlil Gibran], Introduction by Jamil Jabr, Beirut: Manshurat Maktabat Bayrut, 1951.

Rasaʼil Jubran [Letters of Kahlil Gibran], Introduction by Jamil Jabr, Beirut: Manshurat Maktabat Bayrut, 1951.

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The Lost Letters of Kahlil Gibran

Rasa’il Jubran at-ta’ihah [The Lost Letters of Kahlil Gibran], Edited by Riad Hunayn, Beirut: Mu'assasat Nawfal, 1983.

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Witter Bynner papers

Witter Bynner papers
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Harold Witter Bynner, also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968) was an American poet, writer and scholar. While a student he took on the nickname "Hal" by which his friends would know him for the rest of his life. Bynner was friendly with Kahlil Gibran and introduced the writer to his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. 
Harvard University - Houghton Library / Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968. Witter Bynner papers, 1829-1965. MS Am 1891.6 (70-74). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.