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17 rue Notre Dame des Champs

Paris

November 22, 1937.

Dear Jesse,

I am afraid that I cannot help you as much as you hope with information about your father. There is really not a great deal that I can tell you about although we knew him intimately. I first met him on the 6th of December 1897 but I really cannot remember what my first relations with him were. I know that he once told me that a little picture that we have at Bourron of the edge of the desert with the Pyramids in the distance was the first painting that we ever bought from him but I cannot give you the dimensions of this until we go to Bourron in the spring nor can I give you the date at which it was bought until then because the records for things at Bourron are there and not in Paris. I can also give you, and will as soon as I have a moment, the titles and measurements of the paintings we have here in Paris but a number of the paintings are in Bourron and these I cannot give you information about until we are there in the spring.

We moved over to America in November 1900 and at the end of November we went to Mount Kisco to live. We formed a small colony there, of which your father and mother were a part, and built four houses of which they occupied one. They came to Mount Kisco on June 23rd 1902. On December 31st 1902 they left for Boston to sail for Spain but I do not seem to have any record in my diary as to when they returned to Mount Kisco. At all events they were there in the winter of 1903-4 because on the 5th of January 1904 we had 

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