The Edge of the Woods: A Memoir

165 pp. 10 x 7 3/8. Original olive cloth, color cameo portrait on front board, gilt titles. Photogravures throughout. Limited to 1000 copies. Hildegarde Watson was the wife of "Dr. James Sibley Watson, Jr. (August 10, 1894 - March 31, 1982) a Rochester, New York, medical doctor, philanthropist, publisher, editor, and early experimenter in motion pictures." CONTENTS: Preface; A New England Childhood; Finishing Schools: Dobbs Ferry and Florence; Coming Out in Boston and Europe Revisited; Courtship and Marriage, New York and Europe in the 1920's, The Dial; Filmmaking and Rochester Houses; Concert Singing and Marianne Moore; Friendships: John Cowper and Llewelyn Powys, Alyse Gregory, and E.E. Cummings; The Edge of the Woods; Appendix; Index.