Whittredge, Worthington
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McGuigan, Mary K.
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content: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection
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content: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection / Series 1: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. Artists' Letters Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1879
container: label: Container
content: Box 3, Folder 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: Worthington Whittredge, New York, 2 February 1879, to Andrew Varick Stout Anthony (1835-1906), American wood engraver.

New York, 28 December 1868, to Samuel A. Coale Jr., St. Louis.Whittredge writes to Coale, a St. Louis merchant and arts patron, apologizing that the little picture Coale recently purchased, a scene in the Lebanon Valley, New York, was not ready to be shipped as a Christmas present to this wife, due to damage sustained to the frame, but it will arrive before New Year's day. He explains that since the price charged was well below cost, Coale will have to pay for the expense of the frame, as well as the boxing and shipping. The picture is a little dry in places, so Whittredge advises Coale to take it out of its frame and spread boiled linseed oil evenly over the surface, in preference to varnish, as the work is displayed under glass.