To George W. Waters
30 December 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (“The Painting May Be Wild,” Elmira Star-Gazette, 1 July 1962, p. 13, UCCL 14125)
30 December 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (“The Painting May Be Wild,” Elmira Star-Gazette, 1 July 1962, p. 13, UCCL 14125)
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My tastes are essentially barbaric, &Ⓐemendation run to high colors . . . the red glare on the sea, & the tumbling volumes of smoke flaunting off into the sky would furnish a picture which would be painted music to me; & the redder & wilder it was the higher the charm for me . . .
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Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ & ● and here and hereafter
“The Painting May Be Wild,” Elmira Star-Gazette, 1 July 1962, p. 13.
see source text.
see SLC to George W. Waters, January–February 1883. The Star-Gazette is the source of the date for this letter and states that the 1883 letter “belongs to the painter’s grandson, George Waters III.” As there is no record of the 30 December 1882 letter outside the source text, it could be in his possession as well.
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