| Books I keep on the desk. They are mostly
family authored books.
From left to right: By Nathan Comfort Starr: Long Yesterday and other Poems; The Dynamics of Literature; King Arthur Today; The Pursuit of Learning By Michael Kernan: The Lost Diaries of Franz Halls; The Violet Dots Other: C.S. Lewis At The Breakfast Table with a chapter by Nathan Comfort Starr; Stories For My Children by John White Howell the 1st; The Humanistic Tradition, Nathan Comfort Starr contributor; Menlo Park Reminisces, Francis Jehl; Van Nostrand's Science Series #57 Incandescent Electric Lights, with particular reference to the Edison Lamps at the Paris Exhibition, (1882, D. Van Nostrand Publishers, NY) with a chapter by J.W. Howell; The History of the Incandescent Lamp by J.W. Howell and Henry Schroeder. The photograph behind the books is a photograph of Nathan Comfort Starr seated with C.S. Lewis. The photograph was taken by Nathan's wife, Cornelia "Nina" Starr. The military insignia to the lower right is my late father's USAF Major insignia. |