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few things, which if duly weighed & followed must result favorably to its vitality & best interests, and be the medium of establishing the reputation of artists on firm & lasting basis [[?]] by collecting around the American Academy & with it all the genius & talent in the arts of design which our country possesses & creating a fund sufficient to all its wants & [[cas?tury]].
Already 25 artists of this city of reputability await one effort of the American Academy to reestablish its original standing & reputation, and they will join heart and hand to oppose the Academy of design (truly so called) by every work of their hands, done & to be done. The one effort alluded to is - to procure at a reasonable rent say from 800 to $1000 per annum the second story of the largest
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