Condition: Good. Book jacket has some tears and has a protective plastic cover. The book cover itself has some paint in a corner, hidden by the book jacket. The book itself is in excellent condition. The letters and journal entries have been edited and arranged by Virginia Hilu. Here, revealed for the first time, is the secret love story of Kahlil Gibran, the famous Lebanese writer and mystic, and Mary Haskell, the American schoolmistress. ... Mary Elizabeth Haskell's role in the life of Gibran has for years been a matter of conjecture and speculation. Her name is mentioned only occasionally, if at all, in the few books about Gibran. It is unlikely anyone living at the time knew of their secrete meetings in New York at his studio or at Mary's school in Cambridge, the secluded strolls in Boston, the excitement, joy, tumult, despair of the early years, or the strength of the between them. Until the disclosures of this collection of letters, there was little that could definitely be s