BIB_ID
305138
Accession number
MA 1967.33
Creator
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
Display Date
1920 July 23.
Credit line
Gift of Ray Nash, 1959-1960.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 21.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed and revised typed and autograph copies of letters to Henry Watson Kent. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on letterhead from Harvard University Press, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts.
Written on letterhead from Harvard University Press, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts.
Provenance
Gift of Ray Nash in 1959 and 1960.
Summary
Indicating that he can't bear to stay in Cambridge after October; complaining of constantly being recruited for other people's projects; determining of his current situation in Cambridge that "$3,500 a year is no longer a living wage for three people"; discussing his plans to work for William Rudge in New York and their eventual plan to relocate the plant to Mt. Vernon, New York; complaining of never receiving specimens of any of his work; extensively criticizing museums, the absence of "an art of the people," and manufactured "art" for the rich; asking if he has seen "Dana's latest honor" - in reference to "Why not get wise - full directions inside!" - from which he has come to believe Dana to be "the worst influence we have in the development of taste"; mentioning a toothache.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.6 cm)
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