Joseph Hergesheimer letter to Jerome Gray [manuscript], 1913 January 5.

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Joseph Hergesheimer letter to Jerome Gray [manuscript], 1913 January 5.

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In a letter [dated July 5 as a joke] Hergesheimer describes a fishing trip with "Mr. Gilpin" from Charleston, Md., to Camp Biscayne, Coconut Grove, Florida. He briefly mentions buying oysters from the boats, a gale in Albemarle Sound, the Dismal Swamp, the Pasquotank River, ocean travel down the coast to South Carolina, a week in Charleston, different varieties of trees and flowers in Florida, fishing at Angel Fish Creek, landing a seventy five pound shark at Indian Key, sailing across the Gulf Stream, and the hot weather. Photographs of Hergeshiemer with catches are included. He mentions that the channel bass were caught in Mosquito Inlet and the barracuda on the coral reef off Coconut Grove, noting that the later was so strong and fierce it had to be killed as well as caught.

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Gray, Jerome A.

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Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954

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Born February 15, 1880 in Philadelphia, Joseph Hergesheimer was the son of Joseph and Helen MacKellar Hergesheimer. He grew up in a stable, middle-class, suburban family. His father, a cartographer, worked for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Hergesheimer traveled to Europe on money inherited from his grandfather, studying and painting in Florence and Venice. By 1907, when he returned to the United States and married Dorothy He...