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By the way, I notice that now and then that you have a show of some American painter. America has produced two great painters of the Sea, Winslow Homer and my cousin Charles Woodbury. His works hang in all our museums. He is just having a splendid show here. Would you care to give him a show in New York?

Knoedler had a fine Winslow Homer water-colour show; and John tells me that they buy them. Why not offer them the Eccles one?

Perhaps you will be coming this way. If you do, let me know in advance, and plan to lunch with me at my club. I would ask you here, save that my uncle is now at the stage where strangers bewilder him.

Yours Ever,
Harold

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16 February 1936

Dear Germain,

A letter this morning from Paul tells me that the auditors report that our income for 1936, for purchases, will be rather like Becky Sharp's income in "Vanity Fair",- "nothing a year"! Apparently we are still in the red, and beyond funds for operating the Museum, there will be little or nothing for purchases. So far as paintings are concerned, you can rest assured that the Sisley will be the first one to come onto the topic. Mr. Nichols was less pessimistic when he was in New York, and things may

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[[reviewer note: this is the last, and then first, page of a letter. marking complete as transcribed and will let SITC make any further changes. ~katie]]