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Letters of Frederic Remington

The papers contain eighteen letters from Remington chiefly re his published work as a writer and illustrator, particularly "Sketches in the bridal path Central Park" for "Harper's Weekly" and "The way of an Indian"; his work proposals such as illustrating "Seats and saddles" by Joseph Haddox Dorst for "Harper's," using his drawings for the New York "Morning Journal" in a proposed book on the Spanish-American War, and illustrating a book on football proposed by Walter Chauncey Camp; the casting of bronze, particularly a statuette he produced and the cire-perdue method of casting; his fees for writing and illustrating; a proposed London exhibition of his bronzes and paintings; his personal life, particularly his girth, an attack of gout, social engagements, travel plans, and his Mexico trip; an article on San Juan Hill by Richard Harding Davis which appeared in "Scribner's Magazine"; an introduction of "Ned" Kemble, son of Edward Windsor Kemble, to Julian Alden Weir, a professor at the Yale Art School; and his views on football.

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