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Sept. 30/96.

Mr. B. Matsuki,
380 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

My dear Mr. Matsuki:

I was troubled several days after you left with some sort of nervous difficulty that made it impossible for me to take up anything beyond immediate demands, consequently I postponed looking through my engravings for a suitable proof of the block I wished to send Mrs. Matsuki. At last however I succeeded in doing it, and I am sending to your address under separate cover to-day a fine impression of Kingsley’s engraving of Tryon’s painting entitled “Winter Evening”, which I beg you to present to Mrs. Matsuki with my compliments. I think it will make an appropriate companion piece for the “Springtime”. The “Winter Evening” was painted several years prior to the “Springtime”, and I think its quiet foreground, interestingly lighted middle ground, and poetic sky and distance will remind you of the work of a few of the earliest Japanese painters. It seems to me there is great harmony between it and the work of Soami, for instance. Do you see it?

With kindest regards, I remain,

Yours very truly,
Charles L. Freer 

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