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Richard Henry Dana Sr. and Jr. Collection, Accession 6966, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase, 1962 Nov 29
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
[Re inclusion of Richard Henry Dana Sr. 's home in book on homes of American authors; has selected Hammatt Billings as the artist.]
[Declines to write sketch on his father for Putnam's book but suggests material on Dana Sr. in [Rufus] Griswold 's Poets of America or Livingston's Law Magazine and recommends that George Wilbur Peck write the piece; suggests picture caption.]
[Concerns article on Richard Henry Dana Sr. for Putnam's book; wants Dana Jr. to check it.]
[Expresses pleasure with George Wilbur Peck 's sketch on Dana Sr. for Putnam's book; relays Dana Sr.'s request for a price for copies of illustrations of the Dana home.]
[Re proofs for his Richard Henry Dana Sr. article for Putnam's book.]
[Re his biographical sketch in Putnam's book.]
[Re proofs of George Wilbur Peck 's article on his father; mentions Dana Sr.'s desire to purchase copies of the picture of his house.]