ALS, 1889 September 16 : Los Angeles, to Robert Underwood Johnson.

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ALS, 1889 September 16 : Los Angeles, to Robert Underwood Johnson.

JBF writes about illustrations by the artist Borglum for the article she is writing for Century Magazine. She praises his portrait of Fremont as "wonderfully true to the inner life and habit of mind of the General ... the truth is here."

4 p. ; 20 x 12 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6860463

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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