Letters to Durand from artists regarding art work, requests for engraving, exhibition of paintings, the National Academy of Design, and requests for loans of paintings. Correspondents include: John B. Bristol, Thomas Cole, Jasper F. Cropsey, Moseley I. Danforth, Anson Dickinson, Thomas Doughty, William Dunlap, Francis W. Edmonds (regarding Samuel F.B. Morse's painting of the House of Representatives), George W. Flagg, Samuel L. Gerry, Chester Harding, Charles C. Ingham, John F. Kensett, Thomas Le Clear, Joshua Shaw (advising Durand against the use of varnish, "the greatest curse which the arts have ever had to complain of"), John R. Smith, Thomas Sully, and John Trumbull.
