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April 24, 1899.

My dear Thayer:-

I was very glad indeed to find upon my return home from New York yesterday, Mrs. Thayer's kind letter, in which she mentions the frame surrounding the sketch which is now on exhibition with the Society of American Artists. The fact that you do not care for the frame pleases me greatly, because, to tell the truth, I think it seriously injures the picture. The projection is so great that in artificial light a great shadow was cast from the frame. Will you not do me the kindness, and yourself the satisfaction, of selecting a new frame for the canvas? I think a much flatter frame would be suitable, and if you will look after this matter, I will be greatly obliged.

I presume you will go to Cabus for the frame, and I will write them instructions to send the bill for the same to me, which I should very much like to pay. The old frame I, of course, have no use for, and you can make such disposition of it as you please.

I have been wanting for some weeks to write you a letter of congratulation, not only upon the sketch (which I deem one of the most interesting things I have seen for many a day), but also your splendid figure piece in the Society exhibition. I have been in New York the greater part of the winter, and have wished many a time to run up to Scarboro [[Scarborough]] to see yourself and family; but I could not do so because of the extreme rush of work which has fallen to my lot during the past six months. You will be pleased to know, I am sure, that I am at last free from further service in the car building industry. I have sold my interest, and am sailing for Italy soon, to spend the summer. I shall think of you often while in Florence.

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