Curtiss 'paper' Hawks

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Multiple sources such as publications (Baugher, Andrade...) and Wikipedia itself as well as online references are mentioning multiple Curtiss-built types that has yet to see more light beyond the drawing board. The following designs are as follows:
Curtiss XP-14 - Not much information are prevalent aside from being an in-house build of the Thomas-Morse XP-13 which failed due to issues on the H/R-1640 Chieftain engine.
Curtiss XP-18 - Biplane project built around the Wright IV-1560 engine. Ordered but cancelled due to engine-related issues.
Curtiss XP-19 - Monoplane project built around the Wright IV-1560 engine. Ordered but cancelled due to engine-related issues.
Lost competitor to the Berliner-Joyce P-16 - Baugher's website (as far as I recall) mentioned failed Curtiss and Boeing designs before a requirement that was satisifed by the P-16/PB-1. This could shed light into yet another Boeing type (which I can suspect being the model 206 or double-digit designs such as the 78 and 90)

Are there any available contemporary information or drawings that still survive to these days? Thanks!
 
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Are there any available contemporary information or drawings that still survive to these days? Thanks!
In U.S FIghters, Army-Air Force, 1925 to 1980s, Lloyd S. Jones writes that neither the P-18 nor the P-19 were drawn up because the 600-hp, air-cooled, Wright V-1560-1 V12--the reason for the new designs--was not going to be available. See text image below.

The P-13 had the H-1640-1 Chieftain engine (replaced by a Wasp SR-1340C in the P-13A). So the P-14--a Curtiss-built copy with the same H-1640 engine--would presumably have looked more or less like the P-13. See the image below.
 

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