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Copy of letter from George de Forest Brush to his daughter Nancy. 
(Slight additions in punctuation)

Bedford, N.Y.
Jan. 16th 1908

Dearest Nancy:
I received your sweet letter of Dec. 20th. It was so nice to get a reallove letter. I should have written you long ago not to bother with my picture. Do not touch it again. What you have done will be of great use to me. It will prove whether it is of use for me to engage a copyist to help me or not. I realize that it is difficult for you to copy and I should not have asked you to do it but I thought you were going to work from nature on it. I am very glad that you worked with pleasure, however, in your own studio. I have visited with Mr. Clemens and dined once alone with Miss Lyon. I have seen quite a number of friends but for nearly two weeks I have been here with the Proctors painting the dearest totikin you ever saw in all your born days, Mary Ona Proctor. I cannot say too much about their beautiful children. I expect to finish Mary Ona in three days and then I will paint the boy Phimister. He is the greatest beauty in the world. Then I expect to sail for home.
The best thing that has happened was my visit to Hastings the Architect. I inquired of him if he had not received the sketches that Barry sent. He said yes and sent a man to look for them. They were found at last, near by elbow. We discussed them and I asked him how he liked them. He said very much but he was not sure that they would come out well large on account of the drawing. I told him that if Barry got the commission that he would do them under my eye in Florence. He seemed so pleased, he handed me the sketches and said, "Take them to him and tell

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