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REMINGTON, FREDERIC

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REMINGTON, FREDERIC
(1861 - 1909) American painter, illustrator and artist remembered for his works based on western themes, most notably his sculpture Broncho Buster and his paintings Last Stand and A Dash For the Timber. Superb illustrated A.L.S. ""Frederic Remington"", 2pp. oblong large 8vo., New Rochelle, ""Monday"" [n.d.], to ""My dear Julian"". In part: ""àMuch obliged for the photo. The[y] move like the patients in a chiropodist's ante-room. But it's a good photo. I see there are the g ___ darndest plagues going on in Hong Kongàand the Chinese settlements on the coast that I [?] safe this side of the Big Corral fence. I think that any man who would go to China would go to Hell for a pastimeàI won't dare go down - some thin-skinned glad[?] will push a new kind of edged tool into my midriff cause he thinks I wrote it. Lots of moon-gazers think I write all the letter press that goes with my picturesà"". On the verso Remington has added a 6"" x 4"" original ink drawing depicting a well-dressed American man asking a smiling Chinese: ""Now Lung Khi, where do they sell the best Scotch in Ho-ho ho"" and adds a rear view of a Chinese man and an American man arm-in-arm as they enter the ""American Bar"". Remington's note of explanation at bottom reads: ""Lung Khi kept a laundry at 369 Green Ave. Brooklyn for eight full years"". Nicely matted and framed with both sides of the letter visible, fine condition. Remington's illustrated letters are quite rare!