Erastus Dow Palmer Autograph Letter Signed 07/26/1884

Make an Offer Today and Get a Quick Response! Take a Look at This Week's Specials! ERASTUS DOW PALMER - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 07/26/1884 - HFSID 177466. ERASTUS DOW PALMER Three-page ALS (1884), thanking a Mrs.

Norton for sending him pictures of his ancestral home and reflecting how childhood memories become important again in old age Autograph Letter signed: E. Palmer, 3 pages, 9¾x7¾ Appledore, New York, 1884 July 26. I can assure you however that as specimens of photographic work I think them excellent, but I cannot tell you how I value them as mementoes of the home of my fathers. Where the house stands, four generations of my family have lived; the first of whom felled the primitive forest and battled with the wolf and the bear. It is fifty years since our family left this scene of toil & love.

Here sixty years ago I saw in her coffin I saw the remains of my great-grandmother, who died at the age of ninety years. During the ambitious years of man's life he thinks little of the scenes & events of his childhood, to which he turns with almost love and veneration when he is about to lay down his burden of life and prepare for final rest. When we are again in our Albany home, I shall hope to show you the pictures all nicely framed. He worked first in wood, then in clay, and finally in marble and bronze, sculpting in a classical style.

His most famous work "The White Captive" is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His bronze sculpture of Robert Livingston is in Statuary Hall, Washington.

He was the father of painter Walter Launt Palmer. Vertical fold crease at center. Notch at top right corner.

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Authentication: Numbered COA issued by Gallery of History, Inc.
Signed by: Erastus Dow Palmer
Autograph Type: Autograph Letter Signed
Autograph: Authentic Original