Correspondence

11th April 1901.

My dear Mr. Twachtman,–

            We send under separate cover two copies of the catalogue of your exhibition. Will you please mark in one the prices and return it to us?

            We have not set a closing date, thinking to let the time run until the opening of our Annual Exhibition in May (opening the 18th) unless your plans for a possible showing in Pittsburgh or St. Louis cause you to wish the collection sent there about the first of May. Yet, you also spoke of our keeping the things all summer even though we might not be able to have them on the walls at the same time with the Annual Exhibition work, May 18 to July 8. To make sure however, of your being represented also in that Exhn Mr. Meakin helped me to select two canvases which we have set aside.

            Mr. Budworth’s bill for collecting and boxing amounts to $55.50. Does this not seem high, since he had at hand the boxes in which the work had previously been packed for shipment west? What think you?

            Your work goes very well in the west gallery we selected when you were here. Everything shows well and without crowding, and the gray green wall is a pleasant background.

            Yours sincerely          

                J. H. Gest

Mr. John H. Twachtman,
The Players, Gramercy Park,
New York