Title: Autograph Letter, signed, as editor of Sunset Magazine regarding Edward Borein's illustrations, noting he is "not a Remington yet"
Author: Aiken, C.S.
Description: 2 page Autograph Letter, signed, on Bohemian Club letterhead. Approximately 10¾x8¼".To Gifford Hall, "The Anchorage", Santa Cruz, California: "I've been trying for several days to steal time to drop you a line but an editor's life is one of buzz & saw business: You've got off wrong, somehow, concerning criticism of Keno. I've had letters praising it; a dozen or more have talked to me about favorably. Our Mr. McCormick - passenger traffic director of the Southern Pacific - says it's great. I liked it or I wouldn't have run it - its a good yarn and paints the borderland well. I liked Borein's illustrations. He's not a Remington yet, but his knowledge of what he paints is a big thing. I've had lots of good words for his pictures I like them still, and say they're good…” Australian writer Gifford Hall, an ex-frontier cavalryman who had fought in South Africa during the Boer War and worked as a cowboy in Australia, Canada and America before coming to California. Hall built a cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains, where he wrote The Love of Keno McKeown, A Story-Drama of the Border-land, serialized in Sunset. Native Californian Ed Borein was 32 when he was commissioned to draw the illustrations for Hall's story.
Heading: (Borein, Edward)Place Published: San Francisco
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Date Published: 1665

Creased from mailing; fine.