J. Eastman Chase Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Chase, J. Eastman
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content: J. Eastman Chase papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1866-1917
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.chasj, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Found are forty-nine letters, primarily from artists handled by Chase. Often letters concern  business affairs, but may also include anectdotal accounts. Included are seven letters from Winslow Homer (1881-1882 and 1888); four from John La Farge (1885 and 1888); and eight illustrated letters from painter George H. Clements (1887). Among the other correspondents are Gelett Burgess, C. P. Cranch, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William James, John B. Johnston, F. D. Millet, and C. E. Norton. 

A fragment of an autobiographical sketch recounts Chase's Maine boyhood in the 1850s. Also found are scattered printed materials including two announcements, one of which describes Chase beginning his own business after a decade of service with Doll and Richards, Inc. and a fragment of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings on cultural events in Boston in the 1860s to 1880s.