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Autograph Note Signed. 8x5".

To Mrs. Adams: “I know how very much my wife would have valued having you and Mr. Adams among her readers, and I am sending you one of the earliest copies in memory of her warm regard for you both…” Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) was perhaps the leading American muralist of the “American Renaissance” of art and architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work appears in the dome of the Library of Congress, in the State Capitol buildings of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria and the private mansions of the fabulously wealthy. With his wife Evangeline, who died in 1918, he co-authored a classic 2-volume work on Italian Cities, though she wrote a number of books in her own right including a biography of the French Revolutionary Madame Roland which was not published until the year this letter was written.