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to you, through Col Trumbull, the room alluded to at a fair compensation, it now rests with you, to say for once & for all--"We will, or we  will not continue as the Patrons of Art."
Wishing to yourselves individually & collectively as a body corporate, health & peace
I remain Gentlemen
Truly your friend in the Fine Arts.
John H. I. Browere

To the Directors &c. of
The American Academy of
Fine Arts - N.Y. [[Institution?]]