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My dear John -- Hand this letter of

My dear John -- Hand this letter of
My dear John -- Hand this letter of
My dear John -- Hand this letter of
My dear John -- Hand this letter of

Overview

Creator: 
Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909
Subject: 
Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909 -- Correspondence
Subject: 
Artists – United States -- Correspondence
Subject: 
Art and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Subject: 
Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909
Source: 
Original letter: ink on paper, 4 p.
Language: 
English

Transcript

[H29]
301 Webster Avenue,
New Rochelle, N.Y.

My dear John -
Hand this letter of instruction enclosed to my young man.
We expect to land in on you about Wednesday the 15th. Dont turn on the cold water.
You may get a bill for a dozen tennis balls. Don't cry! We may need them for bobs if the fishin’s good this summer. I wrote Pete Smith to take soundings on my tennis court, I think it will be a good place for pickerel.
I'm crazy to see neighbor Inglis' Avarat (sp.). I have figgered out that our friend Howard will have to run up the river with four of five jack screws and get busy with his boat house. I told Allen carefully to build my dock considerably lower than the old one. It will be all right for low water years and in high water years we don't want to see the d - thing anyway.
I suppose the Massena will have to lighter (sp.) us this season. Well - ______ and the cut (sp.) of things generally is height + the St. Lawrence is sure fashionable.

(Sketch of dock and river with F.R. fishing - captions on sketch)

Yours
Frederic R.

 

(Sketch of man mowing lawn by F.R. - on separate page)

Rights

Rights Management: 
Original materials may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (more information).
Resource Identifier: 
Private Collection

Technical

Digitization Specifications: 
Scanned at 600ppi on Epson 1000XL scanner as 48-bit RGB uncompressed TIFF images. Images resized to 960 pixels wide, 150 dpi, and saved as JPEG (level 7) in Photoshop CS5 with Unsharp Mask of 60:1.
Date Digital: 
August 22, 2011
Format: 
image/jpeg
Type: 
Text

Location

Series: 
3
Box: 
3
Folder: 
H29