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sweat to help keep it from drying up entirely. It is not his dulness, as an innovator; that annoys me, it is his vanity. I think it is all too obvious that despite degrees from Purdue, Harvard and Yale, despite his mark being cast as one of the six great printers of all time in the bronze doors of the Library of Congress, and despite years of idolatry by all the obviously smaller frogs, he is dissatified and 
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wants more. Fred Goudy was the same way, and so it may have more to do with age than character. I am surprised though that he has not long been a member of the Academy, itself.
I shall not comment on your appraisal of me, except to say that my method of drawing was learned from your method of painting. Not Millers, but yours. At least, that is what I think it is. You have always been