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ca. June 1878
68 Madison Ave
Dear Jervy
What a terrible calamity! I can appreciate your feelings under such trying circumstances. This is certainly the most serious check of the many we have had to our sittings. Its too frightful to dwell upon.
I hope you will soon return, and that we will be uninterrupted again before the last touch is given to No 12. Henry took the copies of Lear & Brutus and I think Macbeth, to your studio---where they await our coming.
Everything you sent came safely and promptly. I am over head and ears obliged to you Jervy, and am just as deeply sorry for the arrogance and labor my infernal old traps have caused you. I'll repay your goodness some of these days---in some way or other. The boxes were models of artistic carpentry & the packing was superlatively [done?]; the former are now demoralized and empty. I, like yourself, have been up to my eyes in dust and dirt, toting and storing books &c, and am set but 1/3 perfect in my arrangements; the library begins to look homey, and
altogether things are beginning to wear a comfortable air. Let me have the address of the picture-framer---he may be bothered by your absence and my non-appearance; besides I have an engraving I wish framed.
I have just sent to Mr. Richards for my academy tickets---I think you told me to send to him, have I done right?
God bless you, my boy. Give our loves to Gertrude & Jervy---tell em both I have faith and to be chirpy in spite of "Fate, the sisters three, and each odd sayings" (I think that's the quote, not sure). Adieu!
Ever and ever yours
Edwin