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The other I call [[underline]]"Cloud & Sunshine"[[/underline]] & is a Long Island landscape with a powerful sky in it. The first is 20x30 the other 25x30. I have finished the pictures for Messrs [[Stuart?]] Jewett & Wilson I have nearly completed pictures of Vera Cruz, [[Maravateo?]], [[Celaya?]] at Twilight, Havana & several others so I shall have a good showing when I get back to town which will be about Nov 1st I have no studio or house yet but hope to find them while I am in town on the Hanging Committee of the Academy, when I hope also to see you. I have heard of you all summer & the steps you Are taking to advance the interest
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of American Art in which I am sure you will be successful & with which your name will ever be identified as one who, more than any other man saw the merits of our art & gave substantial appreciation of it & placed it before others in its proper light [[strikethrough]] before others [[/strikethrough]] You deserve & I believe you have the gratitude of the Artists for your patriotic efforts in their interest. Trusting that my summers work will make a good showing & that I may soon have the pleasure of seeing you I am my dear sir

Very Sincerely Yours
[[T. Moran?]]

Mr Wilson's picture is very good & is waiting for the frame which he wrote me he would get you to order. Please order a glass for it. 
Yours [[T.M.]]