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painting" is endorsed by Andrew R." Sent my brother at New York - 1808; shown by him to miniature familiar then & studied by them referred to by Mr. Cummings, the principal Miniature Painter then in his public lectures on the art about 1830" Dunlap speaks of this "Treatise" as if it were a published book & upon asking your father if he had ever seen it, he said he thought it had never been presented but was conveyed by one brother to the other in [[?]] and it seems as tho' he was [[?]. I have written Miss Robertson's address & if you know any

any one who would like a copy of the book a post office order for six shillings to her will bring it.

I hope to get to New York on the 16th or 17th and shall visit the Metropolitan Museum as much to see your father's miniatures as anything else. Have you wil a good example of his work that you would like to present to the Penna Academy of Fine Arts as a memorial of him. He as deserves of preserving examples of the works of American miniature painters and have some very fine ones including 

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