Correspondence

April 20th, 1900

My dear Mr. Twachtman:–

            Your letter of the 16th inst. has just come. The date for closing our exhibition had not been definitely fixed though the first of May had rather been in our minds. However, this can be adjusted to suite your convenience, so that you need not have any hestitation in asking your plans elsewhere. We have already found a great deal of pleasure in your work and are trying to arrange to keep something. If in any way possible we want to get the Water Fall, but failing that Mr. Duveneck decided to set up a little artist’s fund to buy one of the pastels. The title on the back is “Early Morning,” which does not appear priced in your list, unless you mean of the forty or fifty dollars to apply to it. Will you please let me know? The artist’s fund as you will see from the inclosed card is really a little fund among ourselves which we are trying to work up. We have got several things by means of it one way or another but it is not on a strong enough footing to make the Water Fall poassible. If we can do any thing with that it will be in some other way.

            When I see Mr. Duveneck I will ask him your question about answering your letter.

            Yours very truly.

              J. H. Gest
                 Ass’t Director

Mr. J. H. Twachtman,
           Greenwich, Conn.