Undated letter, to Mr. Kaufman of the U.S. Department of State: ". . . I want . . . to claim of the department of state a vindication of my honor against the charges . . . of the government of Newfoundland. The crime of which I am accused and made to suffer for without a hearing is one peculiarly offensive to me. The protection that I claimed of the government is such as American citizens generally [feel] themselves entitled to. The fact that I was not afforded it . . . stands in my mind as a barrier to the loyalty I would owe my country. . . ."
Another letter, circa 1918, written to the owner of the house that was his childhood home: ". . . I have no money and no certain income and I want to pay for the use of the place with the work that I do which is painting pictures. . . .
". . . A painting of mine hangs now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, . . . and there's one in the collection of Mr. H.C. Frick . . . .
". . . My mother is now a near neighbor of yours in Tarrytown. . . ."
Fragment from an unknown work on "Rockwell Kent Incorporated" stationery, circa 1919: "Infinity hangs heavy in God's hands. Imagine it! Even the softest of cloud cushions on the most ample and restfully proportioned throne that the religious human soul in its utterest transport of divine worship can image as God's own-- . . . Even that cushioned throne groans hard under the age-long burden . . . ."
with--over 30 letters from either Sally Kent Gorton (Kent's widowed wife) or her husband John F.H. Gorton (Director of the Rockwell Kent Legacies), each to author and illustrator Fridolf Johnson. Vp, 1976-87.