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333 East 68 St. New York, N.Y. 10021 e. Jan 15 '65 Dear Minnie, We are sorry to hear that your mother is not well, and that you need a loan. Mr. Starr and I will lend you the amount you ask, but we would rather buy a picture from you for the same amount! How about that? In November I gave a lot of my photographs of your work, or rather I loaned them, to a professor of art at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut. He and his wife, who is also a professor, were both interested to see your work. They still have the photographs, and I have not heard from them. But they might come to see you sometime. Their name is Mr. and Mrs. Sam Greene. We would like to buy one of your paintings, and these are the ones that I remember that I like especially. The one I like best of all is your "Temple by [[/strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] Sea [[/Strikethrough]] on The Beach", which you painted in 1955. That one we will pay $75.00 for. If you send it to us, carefully packed, we will send you $25.00 more, and you may keep the money we enclose today, and not pay us back. The one I mean is the one with the moonlight and shadows. There are three others we like, and would buy one of them for the enclosed $50.00. These are the one done on the window shade, if it is still in good condition, and the Crucifixion scene with "a Corner of Jerusalem" at one side, and the third is the one called "Dream" done in December, 1959. This is the one with the broken statue in the garden and the angels flying across the sky. There is also a rainbow in this one. If you will send us any one of these three, of course carefully packed, our enclosed checks will be in payment for it. One more offer to buy from you is that we will buy three of your "funny Animal" crayon drawings for the fifty dollars, that would be about $16.50 for each one. We hope you will let us buy from you as offered here. If not, please send us an I.O.U. for the fifty dollars, and let us know when yo plan to pay us back. We will need the money in March, if possible, or at least half of it. The other halk [[half]] we would like in April. I enclose two small photographs. The Funny Animal is one of the ones I especially like and would want as one of the three if you sell us the three Funny Animals. The other is the part of the Crucifixion scene that you said was "A Corner of Jerusalem". How is Mr. Rountree? Have you seen him lately? With the best wishes for better fortune in 1965, and our regards to your mother, Affectionately Nina Starr Mrs. Nathan C. Starr
