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  If you should visit Newport you must be sure and let me know I would very much like to have you come and see me.  I have not yet seen your friends the Pumpellys I fancy they are about starting for Dublin, if they have not already gone. 

Very Sincerely yours, 
Samuel Colman

^[[Am. painter NA etc. 1832-1920 DAD]]

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Sam Colman

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Newport, June 11th 1892 - My dear Mrs Thayer, 

    We have just returned from Mexico and I found your letter awaiting me. This will account for the delay in my answer to it.
    I should be most proud and delighted to be able to give you any points in regard to absorbent canvas, but like you, "all my Experiments have been [[strikeout]] of [[/strikeout]] too unsystematically carried on" to be of any service to you. 
     For years most of my studies from nature were made on absorbent canvas and I have never had any trouble with varnishing, or cracking.
     I found that having the canvas colored a dark brownish grey was