May 1 Tuesday – Robert Reid wrote on this day or May 2 to Sam.
Dear St Mark / A thousand thanks to you for your beautiful note anent the picture. I only wish the picture deserved it!—I wish you wouldn’t go away for such a long summer, for a long summer it will be if H.H.R. holds me to contract labor!! Why must it be that a man should be, because “artistic,”—such a damn phool as I am!—However in the midst of my troubles is always the shining joy of your friendship! / Yrs for painting / Robert Reid [MTP]. Note: the file cites Lyon’s note on her copy of this letter, that the subject of a rough sketch which Reid was going to paint was the S.F. earthquake of Apr. 22, 1906.
Dear St Mark / A thousand thanks to you for your beautiful note anent the picture. I only wish the picture deserved it!—I wish you wouldn’t go away for such a long summer, for a long summer it will be if H.H.R. holds me to contract labor!! Why must it be that a man should be, because “artistic,”—such a damn phool as I am!—However in the midst of my troubles is always the shining joy of your friendship! / Yrs for painting / Robert Reid [MTP]. Note: the file cites Lyon’s note on her copy of this letter, that the subject of a rough sketch which Reid was going to paint was the S.F. earthquake of Apr. 22, 1906.
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