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masses of soft coal smoke create an effect much more interesting to the eye than it is to the throat. You would enjoy the sight, and I wish you were here to see it.

Yours ever,
Charles L. Freer

D. W. Tryon, Esq., 
#230 Central Park South,
New York City.

P.S.
It will be very interesting to see another exhibition of your work. Eighteen to twenty seems to me to be about the proper number to show at one time. The picture you refer to in your letter as having been given by me to a doctor, I fear would be difficult to get this winter. It was not to a doctor I gave the picture but to my lawyer, Mr. Wells. He, poor fellow, is now in a private asylum suffering from an incurable condition of his mind. His good wife remains constantly with him, as she is the only person in the world whom he recognizes. Their home was sold sometime ago, and the household effects are at present stored in a warehouse. I am sure Mrs. Wells would be willing to loan the picture, but I fear if I were to ask her for it just now it would cause her a lot of trouble. How would it be to postpone showing it until a later exhibition?