Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Catlin, George, 1796-1872
setName: label: See more items in
content: George Catlin papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Folders (Boxes 1, 6; Reel 5824)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1821-1885
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.catlgeor, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Letters to and from Catlin, including two written while traveling in the west in the 1830s. Also found are family letters and several letters of support from Henry Clay, John Adams Dix, Ralph Randolph Gurley, James Hall, William Henry Seward, Thomas Sully (illustrated), and Baron Friederich von Humbolt, among others. Most wish Catlin well and offer support in his endeavors to promote and sell his collection. Folder headings include all oversize material.