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Waterford, Conn. Chez Marry Roberts
July 8

Dear Loén

Thank you for your appreciative letter. The picture was so badly hung- too flat against the wall- that very little but a glare could I see. 

I was reading some Oscar Wilde essays that were so evidently written for Willie that I must quote the part about art criticism. "Why cannot the artist be left alone, to create a new world if he wishes it, or, if not, to shadow forth the world which we already know, and of which, I fancy, we would each one of us be wearied of. Art, with her fine