George Biddle Letters to Constance Biddle
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Biddle, George, 1885-1973
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content: George Biddle letters to Constance Biddle
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content: 1943-1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.biddgeol, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: In a letter to his cousin Constance, 1943 February 7, Biddle writes about being named chairman of the War Department's Art Advisory Board which entailed selecting and sending artists (including himself) to North Africa and Italy to create a pictorial war record. "...not factual reportage," he adds, "but the emotional impact of the war on an artist...I am very interested to [sic] in inducting writers into the set-up. John Steinbeck is one of my Committee and I hope to make up that question with McCloy [assistant Sec. of War] next week."

In the second letter, 1945 March 27, written from San Angel, Mexico, Biddle mostly describes a stabbing accident undergone by his son, Michael; he briefly discusses the gloomy economic situation in Mexico.