Letter

Object/Artifact

-

Kentucky State Parks

Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

JJA.9999.0.32

Description

This is the typed letter which accompanies the newspaper clippings concerning the donation of 10 Audubon paintings in 1951 to the American people. Transcription is as follows: "Leonard Audubon was the nephew of Maria and Florence Audubon and the last to hear the Audubon Name now deceased. The inclosed clippings (relate to paintings which were bought from him in Australia. His father migrated there and no doubt these originals were his part of his Grandfathers estate." Signed E. Gordon Dillon. "Deed was the family name for miss Maria."

Collection

Found in Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1951

Dimensions

Height

11 in

Width

8-1/2 in

Material

Paper