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., Autograph Letter Signed, York, Pennsylvania to John Houston Mifflin, Columbia, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1844
by Ramsey, A.C
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
"… I recd your letter of the 14th and I desire to see you first before paying for the pictures. I have something to mention to you respecting them. The frames of course I will pay at any time. Knowing we can adjust them when we meet without any difficulty, I hope you will wait till I have that pleasure. Hoping that you may have all manner of felicity as a married man and that you may call your first born boy after your humble servant …"
John Houston Mifflin (1807-1888) was born in Pennsylvania. An amateur poet, he studied portrait painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Thomas Sully, and began exhibiting there in 1832. In 1836-37 he was in Europe for further study, along with G.P.A. Healy and several others. On his return to America, Mifflin worked in Philadelphia and Georgia. He moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he spent four years as an itinerant artist, wandering through Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, painting portraits of wealthy families, as well as landscapes and miniatures. As an artist, he was unique in that he also opened a daguerreotype photographic studio, possibly becoming the first daguerreotypist in Savannah. It is possible that the "pictures" mentioned in the letter were photographs rather than paintings.
Mifflin named his first son Lloyd, ignoring Ramsey's hint, and Lloyd also became a painter and photographer, as well as an accomplished poet.
Groce-Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860, p.442; Fielding, p. 241
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- Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 30879
- Title
- ., Autograph Letter Signed, York, Pennsylvania to John Houston Mifflin, Columbia, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1844
- Author
- Ramsey, A.C
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Manuscript Americana, 19th century American Art history, Daguerreotype, Photography, Pennsylvania, Georgia, 19th century American Social History
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
About Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC
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