“The stout little old gentleman who ate four fish-balls for breakfast on Sunday” How better to charm a woman than by drawing an old man a...

In his letter of August 26, 1876, to the Misses Cresson, Howard Pyle mentioned “that miserable engagement that detained me at the Newspaper...

Here’s some more about Howard Pyle’s letter of August 26, 1876... First off, Pyle used fugitive ink to write this one, or else the ink wa...

I doggedly pursue Howard Pyle’s correspondence because even seemingly slight or unimportant letters can shed light on his life. Sometimes, t...