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Dec. 26, 1893

Dear Dewing:

I have your two letters of the 20th and 21st inst. It is indeed very kind of White to interest himself in a frame for Elizabeth’s portrait. When the design is finished, please have the frame made at my expense. In order to have the outside dimensions of the frame fit the wall perfectly, would it not be better for me to send you the mouldings originally made with which we had intended to surround the picture? It was also kind of White to speak so pleasantly concerning my visit in New York. 

I do not quite understand your reference to the Penna. Academy exhibition. Have you heard anything derogatory of the arrangement of the pictures or the class of work exhibited? 

I am glad that you find the paper to your liking, and am pleased that you are going to use Miss Clarke in Greek costume for some of your pastel work. I should very much like to see it when finished. Your pastel of the standing figure came yesterday. The new frame is in my opinion exactly the thing for it. The frame itself however might have been a little more carefully made, and I fear Kennedy hurried it too much. By this I mean that more careful workmanship would have avoided certain unpleasant checks in the smooth space between the mouldings. The pastel is very charming and seems entirely at home where it now is. How about the fixative? Has it not slightly changed the color? or is it my imagination?

I think my last letter to “Tommie” closed all business relations between us. I sent him a “squelcher” and shall be perfectly satisfied if I never have anything further to do with him. In fact, I would very much rather not have any of his Tanagaras, beautiful as they are, than to submit to any more of his “backing and filling”. Life is entirely too short to waste energy on such as he.

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