REMINGTON FREDERIC Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed in fu

Sale 1985 - Lot 199

Price Realized: $ 3,450

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

"INGUNS AND CANOES" REMINGTON, FREDERIC. Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed, in full, to Joel Burdick, concerning an upcoming camping trip, waxing philosophic about the Canadian wilderness, with 5 related drawings (including 3 on one full page) of an Indian paddling a canoe, a man shooting a moose, the river with 4 canoes, a campsite and a man fishing. 41/4 pages, 3 small 4to sheets; usual folds, minor staining at corners from prior mounting. New Rochelle, 30 August [1895]

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"It seems strange that my future happiness is locked up in you - but it is so. I have enlisted George Wright subject to your going and Rodgers the artist and myself for a three weeks canoe trip on the upper Ottawa river to start about the 15 of next month (Sept). We can get inguns and canoes up there - it's a great big river - all still water and the trout jump into the boat - the moose come splashing into the water and the little black bear ramboles [sic] in the underbrush. The wild duck sputters and glides away over the water - the mist rises or hangs over the glassy surface of the river in the morning as the canoe glides along. The ingun cuts wood to beat hell or gets the seat of his pants knotted and the hot scotch bubbles on the glowing embers of the camp fire. We get very dirty and as healthy as a hired man and when we are done - it is not forgotten, for is not there the Oct. number of Harpers Magazine with a full account of all the important points, more or less truthfully but always interestingly told by that eminent scholar Mr. F. Remington Esq . . . I was going West with Miles but if you will depose and say that you will go send me down the papers and it's done. We would have the finest kind of a time - it would be better than getting married. It's an ideal crowd - all poets - it's the biggest hunting trip and the easiest thing - & cheap 'Inguns' 1 bone per diam - they canoe for $10 . . ."