Letter from Arthur Little to Ogden Codman Jr. Page One

February 17, 1892; Codman Family Papers, Historic New England 

In this gossipy letter to Ogden Codman Jr., the architect’s friend Arthur Little not only suggests Codman’s interest in the eighteen-year-old Gibson, but he also names two of Gibson’s paramours: the young man’s cousin, Mason Hammond, and his Beacon Street neighbor, Samuel Hooper: 

I am afraid Mason has ‘had’ ‘little Charle’ and therefore discourages you about him…. How funny he [Gibson] and S. H. Hooper must be together! Anywhere but mostly in a bed!