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Papers of John Townsend Trowbridge, Accession #6346-r, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was purchased on 1991 February 14.
In letters to a Mrs. Carr, and a Miss Ellis, Trowbridge complains that artists often do not read a story carefully before illustrating it, includes a humorous drawing about his illegible hand and supplies information on some art lectures by Francis Hopkinson Smith.
[Responds to her letter asking about their intentions of returning to Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert, Maine, with Mrs. Gilman and Mr. Higgins, by expressing concerns about the climate upon Alice [Trowbridge ?], and including a humorous drawing of Mr. Higgins, his neighbors, and the postmaster all trying to decipher Trowbridge's handwriting]
[Supplies the titles and dates of lectures concerning art to be given by F[rancis] Hopkinson Smith in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Cambridge, [Massachusetts] 2 p.