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Byam, William J., Charles L. Hutchinson correspondence, Dec. 26, 1880

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Title Byam, William J., Charles L. Hutchinson correspondence, Dec. 26, 1880

Date Dec. 26, 1880

Language English

Description Charles L. Hutchinson was a Chicago financier, trustee, and philanthropist.

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User-Contributed Transcription LAW OFFICE OF
WILLIAM J. BYAM.
PALMER HOUSE, CHICAGO,
Dec 26 1880
Mr. C.L. Hutchinson
Dear Sir:
Your favor just received. I should very much like to have had our List here headed with the name of Mrs. Chas. L. Hutchinson and regret exceedingly that it is not to be so headed. Of course, I can not hope to secure every liberal patron of literature & art that I apply to; and, on the other hand, it is not every wealthy person that I would apply to, or accept. Only a week ago yesterday a wealthy gentleman from San Francisco--a guest at this hotel whose acquaintance I formed since I came here--asked me to sell him a copy of the Artist's Proof edition of "Onnalinda" to be used as a Xmas present to his wife & to allow him to sign her name on our List of Patronesses, but I excused my declining to grant his request by telling him that the sale was confined exclusively to residents of N.Y., Chicago, Boston & Phila.
When I applied to Mrs Russell Sage, a most cultured lady of excellent judgment, to become one of the Patrons of "Onnalinda" she, after reading the whole poem through, admitted its artistic merit as a poem but frankly told me that Mr. Sage thought $100 too high a price for the Book. I replied I had

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Archival Collection Title Charles L. Hutchinson papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Hutchinson Box 1 Folder 40

BibID 998343628805867

Projects Tag Gilded Age (Adam Matthew Digital)

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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