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Saunderstown, Rhode Island 02874 12 December 1973 Dear Germain: Many thanks (tardy, my excuses!) for the photograph of the Nattier drawing. It is diverting: in spite of the charming play of cherubs with Aeneas's arms, it has a sort of neat and [[underlined]]retenu[[/underlined]] quality that feels exactly as if it were for an engraving rather than for a great ceiling composition. In photograph it looks as if some of the finer lines at right, mostly in Venus's chariot, had been done either with newly-sharpened [[underlined]]pierre noire[[/underlined]] or with fine pen or even brush. I send you something you may or may not have; I discovered the other day that the Museum in Providence still had a few of these check-lists left in the files -- of a show held during a winter when we were away from here teaching at Hollins College in Virginia. I have corrected in a couple of places, but should say that by this time, my habits being what they are, about twenty of those drawings are gone. I sold at Christie's late in 1971 and early in 1972 a number of things the problems of which were solved. And how are you? Greetings of the season. I trust you are keeping warm. We have not panicked but, having a spare flue in our chimney besides those for furnace and fireplace, we bought a stove! Yours ever, ^[[Winslow]] Winslow Ames
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