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[Letter from L. G. Ament to James Ferdinand McCan - January 8, 1921]

Description: Letter from L. G. Ament to James Ferdinand McCan discussing Ament's plans to make for Budapest, Vienna, and Paris after discussing with the Queen of Romania, Marie, regarding McCan's invitation to paint a portrait of her (expressed in several letters that Ament is attempting to collect and transmit to McCan). Ament asks for news from home, specifically how "Joe Hopkins' baby is getting along", and provides the address of a hotel in Paris for McCan to write a letter to. Ament estimates he will b… more
Date: January 8, 1921
Creator: Ament, Lytton Gray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: 44.441678 26.094714
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from L. G. Ament to James Ferdinand McCan - January 10, 1921]

Description: Letter from L. G. Ament to James Ferdinand McCan, with Ament's transcription of a letter from the royal palace of Romania, originally delivered to Ament's hotel in Paris. The copied letter has been written by Queen Marie, expressing enthusiasm and a desire to have McCan to paint a portrait of her "in spite of my 45 years". Ament reports that once he has collected the Queen's original letter in Paris, he will transmit it to McCan as soon as he arrives in New York City.
Date: January 10, 1921
Creator: Ament, Lytton Gray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: 44.441678 26.094714
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from L. G. Ament to James Ferdinand McCan - March 17, 1921]

Description: Letter from L. G. Ament to James Ferdinand McCan, discussing Ament's return trip to the United States, McCan's invitation to paint a portrait of the Queen of Romania, and the status of a letter discussing McCan written by the Queen, addressed to Ament, and delivered to the Paris hotel where he is staying. Ament states the location of the letter is "very uncertain", and fears that "the letter might be lost in the mail".
Date: March 17, 1921
Creator: Ament, Lytton Gray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Location: 48.868850 2.331077
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from L. G. Ament to James Ferdinand McCan - May 11, 1920]

Description: Letter from L. G. Ament at the Broenniman Company to James Ferdinand McCan ("Jim"), discussing Ament's trip to Romania, his delivery of McCan's painting to Queen Marie, and an invitation for McCan to accompany Ament to Romania again in July; Ament states he has arranged for McCan to paint a portrait of the Queen, and expresses his support for the painter.
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Ament, Lytton Gray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Witte Museum

[Notice of Edward Kerry McCan's Death]

Description: Notice of the death of Edward Kerry McCan, published in the Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. A short summary of McCan's life, from his immigration to America to his mining work in Mexico and Chile, are summarized.
Date: August 1911
Creator: American Institute of Mining Engineers
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from John Coffey to James Ferdinand McCan - June 12, 1887]

Description: Letter from John Coffey to James Ferdinand McCan, who is intending to immigrate to the United States. Coffey, McCan's parish priest, vouches for him, arguing that he "is a member of a family widely and most respectably connected in the County of Kerry, Ireland." He praises McCan's character and upbringing by his mother.
Date: June 12, 1887
Creator: Coffey, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Witte Museum

[Letter from from T. Francis Hamilton to James Ferdinand McCan - August 3, 1925]

Description: Letter from T. Francis Hamilton to James Ferdinand McCan, discussing an aborted trip to Boerne and the completion of several portrait photographs made of McCan. He mentions a new studio at Eagle Lake, where he hopes to learn the basics of painting, such as "what to buy to begin with and how to mix and apply pigments."
Date: August 3, 1925
Creator: Hamilton, T. Francis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Witte Museum
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