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Sincerely yours, E.D. Palmer 1817-1894
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Dear Mr. Thomas
I shall not say dough for I shall be delyded to have you au cub and taig
tea wid be on Wedsdy afterdood & obe the mood will be elidig
very troody yrs.
Robert Reid
^[[3]]
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[[sketch of man's face in profile]]
Other than in the fact I don't really look like this, I have acceded to your
request.
Hugo Robus
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[[sheet with folds so that address and part of text show on the same side
of the paper when unfolded]]
[[vertical in center of page, with postmarks VENEZIA FRANCE and
another illegible one]]
Monsieur
Monsieur John F Kensett
Aux [[Snir]]? de Messr Greene & Cie
Paris, France
[[in pencil]] 1843 Fr 13 Decimes 26 cents [[/in pencil]] [[/vertical]]
how things progress with your friends in N.Y. indeed all the little items
you can scrape together. All my correspondents have deserted me or I
them so that I am ignorant of things across the Atlantic. Tell me likewise
of our Paris friends & now my dear fellow as my sheet is full & my time is
limited--for the present I must bid you adieu--remember me to Alx &
Casilear & Hedlig my respects to all enquiring believe me as ever
Yours
Rossiter
if you do not wish to use the enclosed check please burn it & advise me-& tell me if Brown colors in tubes can be procured in Paris.
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Venice Aug. 27. 1843.
I should have written you long since my dear Jack had I not been
expecting a letter in answer to my last from time to time for nearly 3
months. before leaving home I wrote you respecting my plans for the
summer & as I expected funds in my Bankers hands at Paris, thinking
you might want them or could use them to advantage. I sent you an
order for whatever might come to Greene & Co for 3 months from the
date of my letter. As I sent this by Young [[VanKerselaer?]] to Marseilles
to be put in the office there. I am fearful you never rec'd it as you have
not acknowledged it & as I have had notice frm Green & Co that they
have money in their hands subject to my order. it is not as much as I
expected from home being after deducting my last years expenses with
them only 60 Dolls or so. Still as it might help you to come to Italy. you
can use it & welcome. I only regret it is not more. Do not be delicate my
dear fellow. as I am in no want having an abundance of Commissions to
keep the Pot boiling for some time. & more means coming when the
present is done. I am anxious you should see Italy thinking it would be
so much to your advantage as well as gratification. for fear you have
never recd that letter I also wrote in it for you to give poor Cook for me
$5. if that would be of the least service to him. if he has need of money
you will please give him that now. You know I am not Croesus or a
Rotchild.
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or I would gladly do much more. Still do not let him suffer but
appropriate as much of my funds over as you think his circumstances
require. in the course of a few months I shall have more money with
Greene & Co when I can be more liberal & now having disposed of
business a word or two as to my locality & engagements. In my last
letter I told you I intended passing the Summer if possible in Venice.
Fortune favoring me in commissions I left Rome Early with the [[plan?]]
of painting them & also making a few Studies for myself taking the
mountain route as you will learn by a letter I wrote Alx a few days since.
Being fortunate in a companion we had a delightful time with an
abundance of agreeable & amusing incident to remember with pleasure
now the toils & difficulties of such travel are over.- Of all the minor
circumstances of the trip I hope to hold many a converse with you when
we meet in Italy. Suffice it here that after a jolly month we found
ourselves domesticated in Venice on Palazzo Quarini on the Grand
Canal next door to the academy. where we immediately commenced
copying. when I wrote you from Rome I was anxious for you to meet us
here that we might study together & then proceed to Rome again in the
Autumn. but it seems the fates have been against. I will however still
hope to meet you in the Eternal City in the course of a few months. My
friend Severus is here & Mr Lang the Artist with whom I came on &
myself occupy the first floor of the Palace & as we take our meals at
home we have a merry life of it. So often I have wished the [[addition]]
of your worthy self to the party. Knowing how much you [[would?]] enjoy
a residence in Venice Situated as we are 2 other [[American?]] Artists
Mr Terry + Mr Kellogg are likewise spending
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this summer here making studies Etc & we hear that Hunter & Eady are
to be in this quarter in 2 or 3 weeks. also a Mr [[Senitz?]] fm Philadelphia
said to be very clever. My engagments will keep me in Venice till about
the middle of Nov. when I shall return to Rome by way of Milan Parma &
Florence as I have taken a large studio for the winter & am in hopes to
bring something to pass. I am now hard at work in the galleries &
Churches here making memorandums of Color that will serve me
hereafter. - & such a field as Venice affords for this [[kind]] of study,
indeed it is impossible to get an idea of the Venetian School until you
see the large works of Veronese, Tintoretto, Raphael & others--till you
come & visit the Ducal Palace & a few of the Principal churches. Titian I
think I have seen as well elsewhere if I except 3 or 4 pictures, but
Bonifazio & others are only to be found on the walls of Venice. Then
independant of Art the City of the Sea is such a glorious place to spend
a few months in. No horses or carriages to annoy you--all quiet &
meditative, the glidings from point to point in a gondola, Strolling at
Evening in the gorgeous Piazza of S Mark listening to exquisite music of
german bands. & gazing on beautiful women is my dear Jack the height
of [[harmony?]]--my residence in Aquatic Venice I shall always look back
to with pleasure. It is not however the place to paint original pictures in-unless it is architectural Compositions. Models etc are difficult to
procure, it therefore is a place essentially for Copies & Sketches & of
these there are no [[end?]]. I wish you to write me immediately upon
the recpt of this & let me know all your plans & prospects. What your
hopes & wishes are respecting Italy. Tell me what Casilear is doing-also Healy & what news you get from the Artists of America
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[[embossed on paper]] EUGENE SPEICHER 253 WEST 42 ST. N.Y.
[[/embossed]]
3843
Jan [[?]]
Dear Balkan
Ill send you the best I've got which I think is the 40 x 50 portrait now in
the New Society of Artists show. Sorry that I could only have a glimpse
of you at the show. Next time you come to town let us know & will have
a dinner party of some kind
Very warm regards
Sincerely
Eugene Speicher
Regards to St. Gaudens when you write him.
[[stamped]] JAN 9 1924 [[/stamped]]
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[[stamped]] EUGENE SPEICHER [[/stamped]]
[[stamped]] WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK [[/stamped]]
My dear Mr. Boswell As a member of the Carnegie Fmy my judgments were made entirely
from the face value of the pictures submitted. I had no idea who most of
the artists were or where they came from.
Sincerely Yours
Eugene Speicher
October 6 1931
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[[preprinted]] WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK [[/preprinted]]
Dear BoswellThank you so much for your very kind invitation to your party & to meet
our dear friend Margaret Browning.
May 26th happens to be our 37th wedding anniversary. There is a
party planned here for the occasion, and that fact makes it impossible
for us to come to New York & join you.
Margo is one of our Favorite people & old friend & we are very sorry
we cannot be there
Thank you + my regards
Sincerely
Eugene Speicher
May 21 1947
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Rev. Levi Bull Bot of Wm H. Stewart
10 Fancy chairs. Rosewood gilt -- $34
Received payt in full
Henry Stewart
May 7 1818
(Not delived)
(May 7 1818)
[[in pencil]] S463 A-E02 [[/in pencil]]
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10 Hartley Road
Great Neck, N.Y.
November 14, 1945
Mr. C. Ernest Cooke
Virginia Intermont College
Bristol, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cooke
In reply to your kind but rather vague letter, I regret to say that it will be
impossible for me to serve on the Jury for you Third Regional Exhibition
you are planning to hold next April.
With kindest regards, I am
Sincerely yours
Max Weber
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[[date stamp]] Houghton Mifflin and Company Aug26 1886 [[/date
stamp]]
Oak Knoll
Denver
8 March [['84?]]
Houghton Mifflin & Co.
I have recd from Mr. W. H. Harper, son of Paul H. Harper, a request
that I would consult you about the publication of his father's later poems
which have not yet been in book form. and which I think are the best he
has written. W. H. Harper
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wishes to edit them, of course a selection of the best should be needed
if published. He thinks there would be a good sale them at the
[[South?]] now that the poet is dead, and lamented by those who took &
made note of hem while living. This urgent request must be my apology
for troubling you with the matter.
Yours truly
John G Whittier
[[end page]]
[[start page]]
Will you send me a copy each of "Child Life" and "Child Life in Prose"
and charge me with the same?
John G. Whittier
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P.A.B.WIDENER
LAND TITLE BUILDING
PHILADELPHIA
Dear D.I. White I accept with pleasure your polite invitation for February twentieth at
seven thirty to meet Mr. John S. Sargent.
Yours truly
PAB Widener
February fourth 1903
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[[black and white full length standing portrait of man (photo?)]]
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[[handwritten in pencil] OS-G-1 [[/handritten in pencil]]
[[stamped]] JUL 16 1925 [[stamped]]
[[pre-printed letterhead]] 100 William Street New York. [[/pre-printed
letterhead]]
July 15, 1925.
The Press Association Compilers, Inc.,
No. 17 Madison Avenue,
New York City.
Dear Sirs:My mother, Mrs. Phelps Stokes, has sent me the enclosed blank
received from you, and has asked me to give you such information as
seems to me desirable. I cannot take the necessary time before leaving
town on Friday to answer all of the questions, but as all of this
information is available in easily accessible form, your investigators
should have no difficulty in securing the desired information, and I shall
be glad to check over their notes before the article is prepared for final
printing.
I refer you for this information to the various editions of "Who's
Who in New York", and "Who's Who in America", and to my father's own
work, "Stokes Records" in four volumes, which can be consulted in most
of the larger public libraries.
Yours very truly,[[underlined signature]] I.N. Phelps Stokes
[[/underlined signature]]
INPS/ZSC.
Enc.
[[handwritten in pencil]] "Iconography" Architect. author
[[strikethrough]] 6 [[/strikethrough]] 7?
Isaac N.P.S. [[/handwritten in pencil]]
3 50
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MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
SOUTH HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS
DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Miss Sybil Fonda
Hood College
Frederick
Maryland
October 8.1949
Dear Miss Fonda:
Thank you for your letter of October 5 and the invitation to have a
showing of my photo-sculpture at Hood College.
You ask for dates saying that January 30 to February 13 . would be a
very good date for you. So let us fix this date. I tentatively would say
there/is a chance to make a talk to the students during the show. As we
have examination period here from February 1 to 10 I then could leave
easier than at other times of year.
Would Hood College bear the expenses for the trip?
Hoping to hear from you
Cordially
Henry Rox
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[[front of a blue postcard with a 2 cent stamp]]
[[Postmark]] Saugerties NY. Oct 9, 5 AM, 1955
[[Addressed to]] Art Digest, 116 East 59 St., N.Y.C.
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[[back of blue postcard from previous image]]
[[printed heading]] Eugene Speicher - Woodstock - New York [[/printed
heading]]
Kindly change subscription address from the a/m to 165 East 60th St.
N.Y.C. 11-30-54 R 5-1-56
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