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Letter to Frank Fulkerson is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.ILU.186.

The leather hondue (lariat slide-piece) referred to in the letter and The Old Gravois Coal Diggings, containing the story behind the letter’s illustration, will accompany the lot.

PROVENANCE
The Artist
Frank E. Fulkerson (his cousin), Jerseyville, IL, 1903
Present owner, by descent

LITERATURE
Mary Jane Boyer, The Old Gravois Coal Diggings (Imperial, MO: Mary Joan Boyer, 1952), pages 19-21, illustrated

Condition ReportLetter to Frank Fulkerson: As viewed through glass, paper appears slightly yellowed. Two vertical creases top to bottom and one horizontal crease in the center. One 1 1/2” tear at each end of the horizontal crease. One 1” diagonal tear lower right quadrant and a 1” tear along each vertical crease at the bottom.

envelope: As viewed through glass, paper appears yellowed. Tape residue across upper and lower edges. Right side of the envelope is torn. One 2 1/2” diagonal tear, lower right corner, and one 1” vertical tear lower left quadrant.

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