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
session of the legislature at Dover. The firm and determined
stand you took and the successful conclusion of the battle
which you waged against such tremendous odds and in spite
of the enormous political pressure which must have been
brought to bear upon you has won for you not only the admiration of all the honest men in the nation at large, but
has made it a matter of great personal pride to all those of
your fellow citizens whose wish it is to see justice vindicated
and the unsavoriness of state politics rendered pure and
clean.
"Sincerely,
"HOWARD PYLE.--
At the time of the Roosevelt campaign, in 1904, he
was so intensely interested in the presidential contest, that
he drew a cartoon and wrote a little article to go with it,
both of which were published anonymously in Collier's
Weekly. This was managed through the instrumentality
of Mr. L. A. Coolidge, after Mr. Roosevelt had written
the artist as follows:
"I think that a first-class drawing. My only question is
whether it is not just a little too good to appeal to those
whom cartoons in campaigns must influence. I shall send
it at once on to Mr. Cortelyou and see if it cannot be used.
I shall tell him that I think the mere fact that your name is
attached to it will give it a real value with an audience
particularly desirable to reach-in other words, while I
think it too good to appeal to one class, I think it will appeal
to another class which few cartoons can reach at all.. 0.0)) 1
Mr. Coolidge wrote that it was regarded at headquarters
as "the strongest thing that has been written during the
1'Letter from Theodore Roosevelt, October 8, 1904.
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