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September 1, 1925.

Dear Mrs. Twachtman,
I hate to bother you again about the little winter picture that I sent you some two months ago. You will remember it no doubt as one which you said you could not authenticate.

I have been looking into the history of the picture and find that it was #12 in the sale of pictures by William T. Evans held under the auspices of the American Art Association in 1913. Mr. Evans purchased it from William J. Baer, the artist.

Mr. Baer throws some additional light on it. He called here to see it the other day and said that it is one of four pictures which he sold Mr. Evans for the account of his brother in Cincinnati. His brother, a lawyer, did some legal business for Mr. Twachtman's sister and she paid for the services by giving Mr. Baer four pictures.

Certainly this history is unusually direct and in light of it I wonder if you and Colonel Twachtman would feel any differently as to the authenticity of the picture in question.

It is the property of a very prominent collector in Cleveland. The same man I amy [[may]] say, who bought recently your picture with the Slope. I greatly hesitate to tell him that you both think it is not authentic when it has such a splendid history behind it.

Yours very truly,

Mrs. J. H. Twachtman,
Greenwich, Conn.
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