Philip Harry Cummings (1906–1991) was a world traveler, teacher of Spanish and other languages, news analyst, and public speaker.
[2]: 19 Cummings sometimes wrote to important people, such as the eminent Spanish scholar Miguel de Unamuno, "cold" and was able to meet them.
[2]: 4 One of the most important episodes in Cummings's life was the ten days he spent with his friend and lover, Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, in August 1929.
He returned to the United States abruptly the following spring on the advice of his IIE sponsors, just before Alfonso XIII left the throne.
[7] In the midst of the Great Depression, Cummings was happy to get a job teaching Spanish, French, and German at the Valley Ranch School for Boys in Cody, Wyoming.
One portion, dealing with a school holiday visit to the South Dakota capital, Pierre, has been published,[8] and the rest is being prepared for publication.