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to the jury of reelection I hope you will kindly excuse my verboseness of description. but it has been so long since I have sent any pictures to the Accademy [[academy]] of design, and so many and brilliant artists have taken the place as judges, of the old friends I used to know as judges, that I must confess I feel nervous, as to the success, of my pictures, which have been done under the most crushing accumulation of difficulties, and it follows of course that I am anxious that at least their subject meaning should be well understood. hoping you will appreciat my trepidation, at coming before you after my 'Ripvanwinklean', sleep to be judged by new eyes, new ways. I trust myself to your leniency and remain Yours truly, Lilly M. Spencer
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