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

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use it in the Weekly. But when he said that they were
not only going to use it, but were going to make of it a
double-page cut, my exaltation was so great that it seemed
to me that I knew not where I was standing or what had
happened to me. As I went away I walked upon air-I
seemed to float. I found a friend and I took him to Delmonico's, and we had lunch of all the delicacies in season
and out of season....
"My drawing was very much liked in the Department
and brought me the friendship and acquaintance of all those
young Olympians whom before I had regarded only from
the marsh of my unsuccess. I met them and I knew them
and we consorted together for the two or three years that
I remained in New York. 0. )
This was late in 1 877, and from that time everything
moved more pleasantly. Harper & Brothers were well
pleased with his work, he was associating with the people
who most interested him, and he was slowly but none the
less surely building up an excellent reputation. Some of
his later letters to his mother best show the difference between these times and the hard months that had preceded
them:
"New York,
"February 29,1878.
"Dear Mother:
"I hope your patience has not entirely given out at my
somewhat lengthened delay in writing. I will not attempt
to offer any excuse as I deserve none but will simply throw
myself at your mercy with the promise of doing or trying to
do better in future. You know that I would rather write
Letter to Forrest Crissey, October 2,1 px8 96.
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