Excerpt from The Hampton L. Carson Collection of Engraved Portraits of Gen. George Washington, Vol. 1
My Dear Sir: -
I have concluded to offer for sale through you my collection of "Americana". As you are aware it is widely known throughout the country and during the last two or three years I have loaned from it for use by authors of books and proprietors of magazines over Five Hundred pictures. This has involved great labor and much attention by me personally.
These requests are being renewed constantly in different directions and it has become an impossibility, with the pressure of professional and public duty, to adequately care for it and reply to the numerous demands, for essentially it makes me a curator of a public institution without the leisure to attend to it.
Will you not therefore at your convenience have the pictures catalogued, properly advertised and sold?
It would be fortunate if some institution could acquire them, as they must grow in value and in national interest with every year, illustrating the history of our country as nothing else can do, and it is now impossible to reconstruct another collection containing precisely the same subjects.
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