“Ruins of Old Post Tavern” by Howard Pyle (1879) In the summer of 1879, two 26-year-olds set off to Maryland to gather data for an articl...

In researching my posts on Howard Pyle’s Chincoteague trip, I found two letters from a Baltimore Sun correspondent, who visited the island ...

The following article by Howard Pyle, born out of his letter published in the Wilmington Daily Commercial for August 15, 1876, was first pu...

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