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that I will have a "beautiful exhibition!" And while I was so busy with the exhibition, Mrs. Weber got seriously ill. After several visits and examinations the doctor told me and Joy that it was very serious and that Mrs. Weber would have to be X Rayed. By some sort of inuendo of indelicate suggestion [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] and tactlessness he frightened me and Joy into imagining the worst kind of things. We got in touch with Mrs. W. family in Trenton and they advised to wait until she got a bit better - at least well enough to get out of bed and if possible to come to Trenton, to be X rayed by a very distinguished Doctor. This fortunately we did - - And the doctor there found it was not (C.) I hate to write the word. Instead its a case of gall bladder trouble which is curable. Frances is under his care and is taking pills and medicine and is on a diet - and thank God she is feeling better and stronger every day.

And with all this - during all these weeks - we were kept in suspense - hoping my son Maynard would come home from Germany. But as Maynard wrote - the army gives an 

3.) order one day and rescinds it the next. But we learned - definitely that he left Antwerp (Belgium) last Monday - for New York. We don't know the name of the boat - but he may be here in a week or ten days, or even fifteen. He is with the 381st Engineers - Comp. A. bat. C. So there is nothing that we can do but wait. And I cannot miss being here when he finally does arrive.

To add to my labors - if not to my troubles, the Whitney Museum called upon me to frame and present in good shape three large pictures for the Pioneers of Modern Art 1910-1918 in America Exhibition which will open April 1st- I will figure in this exhibition with 10 large canvases painted in the years 1910 to 1918 - 5 drawings in ink - (1911-'12-'14) and a glass case of a dozen of my little sculptures which I made in 1915-16 and 1917. The catalogue cover of this exhibition will carry a woodcut I made in 1918. The seven other early canvases the Whitney is borrowing from private collections- I don't know how many artists will be included in this exhibition - but certainly and only those who worked in the modern idiom during the years - 1910-1918.

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