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
"Wilmington, Delaware,
"January 25, 189i.
"My dear Friend:
"I hope that my last and very voluminous letter-which
I have sometimes thought was of a rather over-massive order
-was not so extensive as to preclude my writing you again.
Anyhow, I take the risk of it-for I have once more to
ask of you a favor.
"I live a life here of such hermit-like seclusion that there
are many men, such as yourself, for instance-toward whom
I grow to feel a deep and sincere liking though my only
commerce with them is through the stiff and clumsy channel
of 'letter-writing.'
"Maybe I sometimes come nearer to such men through
the medium of my work and so, swinging the circle, I come
to the favor I have to ask. It is that you will accept a pair
of drawings (which, relying upon your complaisance, I send
by this same mail) unconsiderable but not, I hope, altogether
inartistic.
"Will you accept them-as being a little part of myself?
"Very sincerely yours,
"HOWARD PYLE."
"Wilmington, Delaware,
("February 15, 189i.
"My dear Friend:
"I am very glad that you were pleased with the two little drawings which I sent you. I thought that maybe you
would be glad to have them-not from any intrinsic merit
in themselves but because of a certain kindness which I do
believe you feel'toward the author.
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