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Description: The writer John Cole [?], clearly a personal friend, encourages and urges the artist William Page to “come up [to Albany] and see the parties personally.” He suggests that Page speak to probable sitters, “touch a chord and awake the dormant taste of the old cadgers” who in all likelihood would not refuse Page as they would the letter writer.  Some of the “distinguished living characters” he does promise are Mr.  Schoolcraft, Mr. Reynolds, and Governor Marcy. Signed, “Yours respectfully truly/ John Cole [?]”

Handwritten on a 7 ½” x 9 ¾”, light-blue stampless cover addressed to William Page, Artist, 2007 Broadway (cor Murray), New York. It has a circular Albany cancellation. Item #AM00395

William Page (1811-1885) was an American painter and portrait artist who painted portraits for a year in Albany before he moved to New York. Some of his well-known portraits include John Quincy Adams, Hiram Powers, James Russell Lowell, Ulysses Grant, Charles Sumner, etc.

Condition: Some light soil especially at the fold lines on the verso. Generally very good condition.