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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