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amiable; & 2d because, alas, I am so the reverse. I am, after your kind expressions, in duty bound to notify you that Henry Harper has not asked me to do an article about your work; & that should he still do so I should be, to

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my regret unable to tackle the job. I have long since given up talking publicly about art, & have had to concentrate, in my small way, on literature. It is no loss to art - though it may be a loss to pleasure -- one's own. At any rate it