Unpublished autobiography
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content: Butler, Howard Russell, 1856-1934
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content: Howard Russell Butler papers
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content: Howard Russell Butler papers / Series 10: Writings
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content: Reel 93
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: Microform [31027000343323]
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content: Includes an unpublished autobiography written from a journal kept by Butler. In it Butler records travel impressions in Canada and the U.S. Northwest, Mexico, and Cuba; experiences as agent and executive in the telegraph business; thoughts on acquaintances as an art student in Paris, and artist in New York, including memories of William A. Coffin, Kenyon Cox, George de Forrest Brush, and others; work as founder of the American Fine Arts Society, which introduced him to George Vanderbilt and Andrew Carnegie; and his 10-year association with Carnegie, including various business dealings.