A Cousin’s Birthday

Birthday Invitation Inside

Parents keep everything from the first baby! Here’s an invitation to Howard to come to his cousin Whitfield’s birthday. Dated Saturday, October 5th. The year that seems most likely (an October 5th landing on a Saturday) is 1946.

Birthday Invitation
Birthday Invitation Inside
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Robert Gibbons Story

Robert Gibbons (top)

No date, no citation. This clipping was in Claire Gibbons St.Clair’s scrapbook. She sure was proud of her siblings!

The article celebrates Robert Gibbon’s story being included in the Best American Short Stories of 1949. Notable in this clipping in the references to Uncle Bob’s short stories, some of which are named by title: The Departure of Hubbard, A Loaf of Bread, Time’s End.

Robert Gibbons (top)
Robert Gibbons (bottom)

For further information about the career of Robert Faucett Gibbons, see:
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3117

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