PHILIP GIBBS - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 02/21/1921 CO-SIGNED BY: NENA FALES PECK - HFSID 88267

PHILIP GIBBS and NINA FALES PECK
Handwritten notes (and her drawing) on opposite sides of an album leaf
Autograph Note signed: "With kindest regards/to Dr. and Mrs. Wainwright/from Philip Gibbs KBE/Feb. 21st 1921", 5½x8. Also signed on verso: "Disturber of the Peace/Nena Fales Peck/[Here she has drawn two youthful females, with one saying of the other]/Gosh, she's beauty-fool/ Feb. 26th - March 3rd, 1921". British journalist and author PHILIP GIBBS (1877-1962) was one of five official British reporters during WWI. Gibbs, who published his first article in the "Daily Chronicle" in 1894 and the first of his books, Founders of the Empire, five years later, got a boost to his career when he was appointed as literary editor at the "Daily Mail". He worked on other prominent newspapers before going to the Western Front after the outbreak of the first World War. Although the War Office in London denied him permission to remain there (and Gibbs would be arrested and returned home), he was officially accredited as a wartime correspondent a short time later, along with four other men. In addition to his stream of newspaper articles for the "Daily Telegraph" and "Daily Chronicle", Gibbs wrote a number of books during the war years, including The Soul of War (1915), The Battle of the Somme (1917), From Bapaume to Passchendaele (1918) and The Realities of War (1920). Gibbs, who was knighted at the end of WWI, again served as a correspondent (this time for the "Daily Sketch") during WWII. His works also include several autobiographical sketches, including Adventures in Journalism (1923), The Pageant of the Years (1946), Crowded Company (1949) and Life's Adventure (1957). Little information is available on NINA FALES PECK. She is credited with composing the popular song "Dream of Me, Dear" in 1893, and appears on a Rhode Island concert program from 1925 as an "Entertainer Improvisatrice." Six filing holes at left edge. Lightly soiled. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.