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454 Fort Washington Avenue
New York City

March 8 1913.

Mr. R.D.W. Connor,

North Carolina Historical Society,
Raleigh South Carolina.

My dear Mr. Connors;

I do not wonder that you are becoming a little impatient at my long silence. and very justly so.

The fact is I Have just returned from six weeks in the hospital, and I was very miserable for weeks before that, so all my affairs have been much neglected .and I have not yet had the bust photographed if you still wish it I will have it photograhped ,but as I wrote you early in the fall ,I am not at all satisfied with the best that I can do with it and I would prefer not to have it go out as my work. 

I should have to go over it again and put it up life size in clay before I have it photographed and I should really prefer to give it up altogether.

I have done it over many times, but the Photograph is very difficult to work from and I simply cannot get satisfactory results. 

I am very sorry to have caused you all this delay ,and trust that you may find some other sculptor who will do the work to your liking

As I wrote you before I could only let the bust go out without my signature.

Again expressing my regret that I could not have ended the matt Satisfactorily long ago, I am,

Yours very sincerely