New Haven Gimbel

June 7, 1958 P. 25

June 7, 1958 P. 25

The New Yorker, June 7, 1958 P. 25

Talk story about Col. Richard Gimbel, Curator of Aeronautical Literature of the Yale University Library, and about his exhibit called "Early Voyages to the Moon." Among the items on exhibit was a 1727 "Voyage to Cacklogallinia," by Samuel Brunt, a South Sea Bubble satire in which a trip to the moon is financed by a stock offering, and birds report its progress, en route, to the stockholders.

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