Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

HOWARD PYLE: A CHRONICLE
engagement, as my picture represents, occurred just before
sunrise of an excessively warm April day.. 0.a Y
"September 23, 1897.
"I am very glad that you like my picture of the Lexington fight. I may confess to you that I somehow felt as
timorous about it as a young artist presenting his first work.
I felt the subj ect so very much, and the cloudy mud upon
my palette was so inadequate to express the lucidity of the
early morning light and the dimness of the earth that I
feared you might find it as unsatisfactory as I did.. 0.a.
"November 18, 1897.
"I send you today the Bunker Hill picture. It is quite
carefully studied, and I think, excepting the portraiture
which of course has to be idealized, it is a correct view of
the battle,. 0.
"The ship of war firing from the distance is the Lively.
In the remoter distance I have represented Copp's Hill
with the boat yard at the foot of the hill as nearly. as I
could represent it from the maps of the period. The smoke
arising from the remoter distance is being discharged from
a fortification upon Copp's Hill. Charlestown lies back
of the hill and the black smoke arising is from the burning
houses."
"August!2, 1898.
"After many delays and a great deal of worry on my
part, I am sending you today my picture of Benedict Arnold.
I trust you may find it to your mind, for I have expended
much thought and great care upon it. I think it has some
dramatic intent.
"It represents the scene where Arnold, having received
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