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JOHN LA FARGE,
51 WEST TENTH STREET,
NEW YORK.

CABLE ADDRESS,
"SAMOA," NEW YORK.

Xmas 1901

Dear Mr Alexander

For a whole week I have been intending to write you a line or two. Today is a good day to send them with good wishes 
I have desired to tell you that I had seen Mrs Tom Hastings portrait and that I thought is beautiful. It was portrait & picture all together blended, and you had put into its arrangement & painting what you have been expressing in other subjects these last few years--and yet it was Mrs. Hastings. She was there as a few feet off from this picture. I saw it perhaps in a faint light, but there is no