Samuel Colman Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Colman, Samuel, 1832-1920
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content: Samuel Colman papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 34 Items (Folder 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1855-1901
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.colmsamu, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Samuel Colman papers consist of 15 letters to his sister Mela, his brother-in-law Emerson Howard, and other family, dated 1855-1861; also one undated letter and one written in 1901 to Kate; and an undated letter of a descendant. In Colman's letters from France, he writes of life there, and expresses sentiments for the family. Colman also writes of painter George H. Boughton, with whom he shared a studio and rooms. In addition there are 16 drawings and sketches, probably the work of several persons, and "The Death Song of a Cherokee Indian," written by William Colman in 1809.