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12/10/1848
From Frank Carries
[[post stamp]] 

Mrs L. Spencer
Artist
No 614 Broadway 
New York

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Cincinnati 10th Dec 1848

My dear Mrs Spencer

I am at length in possession of your letter, and it gives me much pleasure to hear from you, and to learn that your [[?]] [[?]] are good. But I candidly confess that I had expected better things of the New Yorkers and of those to whom I recommended you, except Mr Weeks and my daughters, who seemed to have been duly attentive. She questions their armies, why you have not sold many more pictures, than you have done? It is my duty then, as your friend to do my best to answer this question. It is only because unlead of two pictures of your peculiar "genre," you have not had twenty. The plain truth is that pictures remarkable for Maternal, [[?]], feminine expression [[?]] which little else is seen but flesh, white drapery, and [[?]], constitute your triumphs, according to popular estimations. Ophelia, which I consider your chef d'oeuvre, dont take, and "pity 'tis 'tis true," as Shakespeare says.