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it for this use? I should be greatly obliged by hearing from you upon this matter as soon as possible. 

Very truly yours, 
Ellen F. Lauder 

to distance everybody in art while rearing so large a family as corresponds to even the least of the members given me. 

If you are to come to New York some day soon, I would be glad to meet you at any place you designate. If this place would not be convenient can you not send me the main facts of your career, in writing? [[crossed-out]] I should like to get something of your ideas about art, particular among New York works [[/crossed-out]] If you could give me some notion too of the ideas you have meant to embody in your work it would be of service since I have not had the good fortune to see for myself. The article is to be illustrated by portraits of the ladies; will you be kind enough, if you have a photograph or anything from which an engraving might be made, to send

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at the bottom of the second page the words "any of your pictures" is places between two lines and I'm not sure where to place it. Looks good, all set.