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tradition!  It would stand up among the French paintings we have just been admiring.

I would not wait more than a day or two, and then I would send the frame man a check for that lovely frame, so very becomming and say nothing to Witkin!  When she mentions it or is about to pay, she can find out you are way ahead of her - in taste, as well as pride -

I enclose a check for 150.00 to tide you over this ugly moment - And I will see that Tom expedites the quota that comes to you at this time - Some extras are due from some source I believe -

Don't you allow discouragement to attack you!  You are going through what all [[underlined]] real [[/underlined]] painters