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Monadnock N.H. April 21. 03
Mr dear Mr. Grossmann
Of course I remember you very well and should be glad to see you again.
It was an impressive sensation to read a signature so long unthought of except as an early memory. Is the fact, here confessed, my fault. Has your life, all this time, been like mine before the public, and I none the wiser? I am certainly a most absorbed person, knowing far too little of what is going on, save in the [my?] studio and in the field of out door nature. I being a red hot hater of the world-power policy of the Anglo Saxon and the old world empires, have buried patriotism deep deep and my country in where ever I see a good man---for, spend my life in scolding I will not, while the sun can rise and so much life can go on. No I haven't yet heard of your son. I enjoy the thought of his
occupation and should greatly like to see him (and you all) and his work. I suppose he knows C. R. Knight and Louis A. Fuertes. I think it was merely a slight inaccuracy of expression that made you express a wish to "constrain the over enthusiastic devotee." You probably agree with me that there can't be too much enthusiasm. The trouble is imitation enthusiasm. Yours very sincerely Abbott H. Thayer
My one son is 19 1/2 He is at present helping me write and illustrate a book on protective coloration of the An. Kingdom. He paints remarkably well. I have two daughters 16 and 27 Their stepmother and they also paint and actually with real power So we are a very painters colony.
[with envelope postmarked] Monadnock N.H. Apr 21 1903)
Abbott H Thayer
Ignatius R. Grossmann Esq 12 W 18 New York City
[rec'd postmark] New York NY St Apr 22 7-AM 1903)