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2 pp. Typed Letter Signed as Executive Secretary (to Chairman Douglas Volk) of the American Artists’ War Emergency Fund, sponsored by the National Arts Club.

To Mrs. Edward R. Murphy, Denver, Chairman, Colorado State Committee of the War Fund, sending 2,000 “Service Together” stamps – one copy of which is affixed to the letter - and discussing details of the Fund’s activities in Colorado. Since the Fund, which raised money to support artists “reduced in circumstances”, included such well-known figures as Edwin Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, Ernest Peixotto and Charles Dana Gibson, no one bothered to credit the “Service Together” stamp to 34 year-old Eugene Savage, a then-unknown painter and sculptor studying at the American Academy in Rome, who would later gain renown for his WPA murals during the Depression.