AAA_hayshele_3361 - from our story 'The Art Of Writing: The Joy Of Illustrated Letters (1800-1980)'

Letter from illustrator Paul Bransom (1885-1979) to Helen and Jimmy Hays. In the 1920s, the Bransoms built a home and studio at Canada Lake in the Adirondacks, where they were part of a small summer colony of artist and writers including Helen Hays, Clare Dwiggins, his daughter Phoebe Dwiggins, Todhunter Ballard, Charles Sarka, Margaret Widdemer, Mabel Cleland, Herbert Asbury, Emily Hahn, and James Thurber. In a letter dated February 19, 1942, Bransom dreams of their summer vacation home. Helen I. Hays papers.

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