508 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 195 



sent to Macomb in which Long declared Seymour's services were 

 necessary for the preparation of the report of this 1823 exploring 

 party and asking for him $2 a day for 3 months. The final result 

 in pictures has already been shown. 



One further reference to Seymour's work on these expeditions shows 

 that he was not content merely to do jDencil sketches and water colors. 

 Maximilian of Neu-Wied on July 23, 1832, visited the Peale Museum 

 in Philadelphia. There he met Titian Ramsay Peale, who showed 

 the specimens which he himself had collected on the western expedi- 

 tion. What particularly interested Prince Max in the museum were 

 "some oil paintings of Indian villages and scenery by Seymour" (Maxi- 

 milian in Thwaites, 1905, vol. 22, pp. 69-70) . Unfortunately, this mu- 

 seum was dispersed many years ago. 



Wliere are they now, these oils and the hundreds of unpublished 

 landscape sketches that once filled the portfolio of this man who 

 was the first to serve as staff artist on the United States Government 

 exploring expeditions, who was the first to picture the western plains, 

 the outlying ranges of the Rockies, the upper reaches of the Missis- 

 sippi, and the wilds of I^Iinnesota ? 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



For information about the Long-Roberdeau letters I am indebted 

 to Richard G. Wood, of the War Records Office, National Archives. 

 The letters of Long to Macomb (Buffalo, October 18, 1823; Phila- 

 delphia, November 6, 1823; Philadelphia, January 10, 1824) are to 

 be found in the War Records Office, National Archives, Corps of 

 Engineers, Letters Received, 1819-25, Nos. 1436, 1458, 1535. 



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Darlington, Wiixiam. 



1843. Reliquiae Baldwinianae. Selections from the correspondence of the 

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 DuNLAP, William. 



1918. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United 

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 James, Edwin. 



1823. An account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains 

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 James, Edwin, in Thwaites, R. G. 



1823. An account of an expedition ... 3 vols. London. Reprinted in 

 Thwaites, R. G., Early western travels, vols., 14-17, 1905, Cleveland. 

 (The opening and closing sections of Long's report to the Secretary 

 of War, dated Philadelphia, January 20, 1821, were omitted from 

 the American edition of the Account, but were published in full 

 in the English edition.) 



