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SAME TO YOU MY DEAR

• A glass bead necklace earrings to
  A glass bead necklace earrings to match and a bracelet similar
• Sgn. Robert Browning Letter On
  Sgn. Robert Browning Letter On letterhead 19. Warwick Crescent W. Dated June 29 '86. Addressed to ''My Dear Calvin'' declining an invitation and thanking the addressee for inquiring about his sisterâ¤Ts healthE
• Winston Churchill signed letter,
  Winston Churchill signed letter, four typed lines on Hyde Park Gate, London, printed letterhead, December 31, 1958, to Brigadier Sir John Smyth, "Thank you very much for your letter. In view of what you tell me, I can only say how honoured I am that such an Illustrious association should wish to have me as its President. Yours Very Sincerely" signed "Winston Churchill" in dark brown ink, 6-3/8 x 8-1/8 in. Laid down on cardstock, foxing Collection of Donald Nelson, Williamsburg, Virginia.
• FOUR LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH
  FOUR LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOOREFour Letters from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Friday, September 17, 1937; mailed Saturday, September 18, 1937 My Dearest Alice: The rest of the family left last Tuesday so I am now very much alone. I have been thinking a great deal about you and realizing more and more what a splendid girl you are and what little hope I have of ever becoming your husband although I know we belong together, Alice, I know it as well as my right hand and by God, I'm going to do something about it. What I want to know from you is do you love me or is it hopeless? Please tell me the truth. I wish I could make you out. [Illegible sentence, crossed out] One minute you are very warm to me and the next, oh hell I give up - excuse me. Well I heard form N.Y. today and Mr. Macbeth is planning to give me my show the middle of October which is really a very good time. That means I have to leave here before I expected to though which I am sorry about and I think its worth it, don't you? Also I have been asked to have a one man show in Utica New York at the Williams Proctor Institute, which isn't so bad either. We have been having some foggy weather here for the past week so I have been working in the studio most of the time and have enjoyed it very much. It's really very cozy with the fire going. I think I have some good pictures started too. I hope you are well and that you haven't forgotten about me. I love you I love you I adore and want you but what's the use. Andy Saturday, October 2, 1937; mailed Saturday, October 2, 1937 Dearest Darling - Please, please forgive me for not writing since I have been working so hard that I forgot all about time but not about you I never can you are on my mind day and night and how often I have wished you could be here with me. I always thought that I would never need anyone as I need you . Alice, I want you to be near me always. I need you more than you need me I know although as time goes by I think you will change - I hope so anyway. Well, I have been working in Egg Tempera for the last two weeks and by God I like it I have done several landscapes and am now working on a portrait of a fellow who to me expresses Maine of today. Mr. Sidney Chase the artist who lives in Martinsville can't seem to understand why I should want to paint the worst drunk in Martinsville, but as I told him, I am not interested in painting the picturesque Maine of yesterday but want to paint it as it is today and to me this fellow is typical of Maine of today. I really think I am getting a good one. The name of the fellow is Charles Ervine, ask Jim Balano about him. Thursday I went to the Union Fair and had a swell time, went up with several fellows from the port. Mr. Ervine went also and passed out. I will tell about it when I see you. I want to get this in the mail so I had better stop by saying that I love you so much that it worries me. Andy [Accompanied by a black and white page of an exhibition catalouge depicting "Charles Ervine" by Andrew Wyeth] Thursday, October 14, 1937 My Dearest Alice, Just received word from Macbeth Gallery that my show opens October 19th, so I am planning to arrive in Poughkeepsie Friday night. Hoping that you will be there - Much love, Andy P.S. Could you let Bill Balano know. October, 1937, a Monday after the Macbeth show; mailed Tuesday, October 26, 1937. My Dearest Alice, Just a note to let you know that I am planning to call you from New York City Wednesday night about supper time. My show has gone well. I have sold everything and most of the reviews have been good. You have been on my mind night and day and how I do miss you. I had really a swell time with you in Poughkeepsie and I want to thank you my sweet I love I love you and I love you and by God just watch me. Excuse the terrible writing and also the shortness of this. I love you. Andy Condition:
• A Book of prayer text in Hebrew and
  A Book of prayer text in Hebrew and English together with two mezzuzas and a covered jug with Hebraic '' Happy New Year '' inscription.
• Robert Browning (1812-1889)
  Robert Browning (1812-1889) Autograph Letter, one page, octavo, signed and dated Feb. 9th [18]55, with stamped, addressed envelope postmarked Florence, Feb. 10, 1855, to Mr. Alexander Gilchrist (1828-1861), reading: "Dear Sir, I well remember the occasion of my writing Mr. Etty, & the feeling with which I wrote, writing more. I can readily believe, however, you have done me as little harm, by printing the note, as good - except in the honor of apostilating my name, even in so slight a matter with that admirable and loveable man's. Your book has only reached me partially as yet - by the extracts in review - but these are of very pleasant promise. Pray let me thank you very cordially for your kind expressions to myself, & assure you that I am, Dear Sir, Yours very sincerely, Robert Browning", accompanied by a clipping of the letter's description in the original sale catalogue of New York Bookseller Emily Driscoll, catalogue 11 (1950), item 23. This letter is clearly in reference to the flattering letter Browning sent in 1849 to the artist William Etty (1787-1849), and which Gilchrist published in his 1855 Life of William Etty, R.A., v. II. p. 280.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Tuesday, December 28, 1937; mailed Tuesday, December 28,1937 Dearest, I certainly hope you had as fine a Christmas as I did and you were the reason for making it perfect you are just swell my dear what else can I say my dear. I will always be on time with such a clock around although I don't really think I could ever be on time for trains when I am leaving you. Please don't think that I have forgotten you but I have really been terribly busy since I last saw you. So many things have been happening here. The house has been full of relatives for the past week and I have been trying to take care of them and also keep up with the social world. I will be really glad when every thing slows up and I get back to some serious work again. I have been out to some sort of party almost every night since I left New York and I certainly have me some dim [?] people, although I did meet a young man from Maine who is very interesting and really has some brains. He is leaving for Hollywood soon where he has made some contacts to get in to the movies. I think he ought to make a success there, I'd like you to meet him. Is there any chance of you getting a hold of the current Fortune magazine Macbeth wrote and told me that there is something in it on page 158 that would interest me and I can't seem to get hold of one. I want to tell you again how swell it was of you to think of me [at] Christmas and I am counting the days until I see you. Andy [Accompanied by an advertisement for Wyeth's work at Macbeth Gallery in Fortune Magazine] Condition:
• Winston S. Churchill letter
  Winston S. Churchill letter signed dated March 7 1923 addressed to ''My dear Weir'' possibly William Douglas Weir and reading ''I send you herewith a copy of my book with my very best wishes. Believe me Yours Sincerely Winston S. Churchill.'' On stationery from the Villa-Reve-Dor Canne A.M. framed sight size: H7 3/4'' W4 3/4''; together with a copy of his book THE WORLD CRISIS 1911-1914. 1 Vol. London: Thornton Butterworth 1923. First edition second state first volume of six total volumes. (2pcs) Provenance: West Virginia private collection. Letter: with folds. Book: probably not the book mentioned in the letter but we are uncertain of this; first few pages coming loose; spine splitting; pages appear to be intact.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, August 21, 1938; mailed Monday August 22, 1938 My Dearest, I am very glad to tell you that Mr. Macbeth was very pleased with my work, in fact, he bought eight water colors outright which I hear is quite good, but what please me most is that he seems really surprised at what I had done this summer. I certainly am glad that's over now and that I can get back to my work. Now the next big thing for me is seeing you again so please don't disappoint me by not coming up. Well, Ann had an eight pound boy last Thursday morning and both of them are perfect. My father and mother are going home to see them in a couple of days, so Carolyn and little Peter and myself and also the cook, Alice will be here alone so you had better come up over Labor Day and keep me company. In fact, I need you very much as I have been under the weather for the past few days with the same bug that my father had. But I think I am better today, but even if I'm not better I am going to paint tomorrow or I will go crazy. I do miss you so much these days and long for you to be near me. I have been wondering what you have been doing these past few weeks. Finished "Wuthering Heights" this morning and got a kick out of every page. She certainly did load drama into that story, but there is something much deeper in it than that. There is a soul in it which makes it live in your mind. This is a book I will always remember. Excuse this short note my sweet as I must get to bed and get some sleep. I am thinking of you. Much love, Andy Condition:
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Thursday, August 12, 1937; mailed Friday, August 13, 1937 My Dearest Alice, I can't tell you how thrilled and please I was to receive your grand letter. You are a perfect darling. I certainly am a lucky fellow to have a person like you to write to. You are on my mind constantly and it makes me feel very bad to think of you being so far away from me and especially in all of that heat. For the past week the weather here has been very foggy and rather warm for Maine but today its cleared much to my joy although I really don't mind fog because I am in one most of the time. Well I think my painting has made a big jump ahead since you last saw it. Today I did two of my best water colors I really think they are darn good. One is of the Glenmere Church [Second Baptist Ridge Church, Martinsville, Maine] looking through two tomb stones. I think it makes a very effective picture. I must have given a crazy impression to the people that passed the church seeing me painting among the tomb stones. The other one is a landscape done early in the morning. I am also working on a portrait of a young fisherman which is coming along very well. By the way, I sold a picture the other day to a lady from Boston. It was a small water color which I did the day after you left. It brought me in [crossed out word] I received a note from Jim Balano today. He told me that he stayed in and saw you all [in margin] < That's what happens when I read Gone with the Wind) and had a grand time. He probably told you that I am planning to stop off at your place on the way to Chadds Ford. I expect to stay here alone until the end of November. The rest of the family are leaving in about a month. When I look over this letter I wonder how I have the courage to send it to you. I do love you so very much my dear that it's very hard for me to wait to see you again. Good night my dearest darling I love you. Andy Condition:
• CRAIG TENNANT (AMERICAN, B.
  CRAIG TENNANT (AMERICAN, B. 1946), YOU TOO, CURLY Oil on linen, signed at lower right, presented in an attractive burnished white gold cove frame of weathered wood.
• A lady's fan with pierced frets
  A lady's fan with pierced frets together with three other fans and a Japanese lady's haircomb also a tapestry handbag together with three horn boxes and one hardstone lidded box
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, August 14, 1938; mailed Monday, August 15, 1938 Dearest: Your letter gave me one of those thrills that I will not easily forget. For once I almost believe you do care a little for me, I do so much want to believe that some times I feel as if I would like to hold you so tight and tell you that I love you again and again and that I will not let you go, and then I wonder if you do love me enough to want me for life. Oh my sweet, when I think of you being with any one else I feel terrible and when I think of how wonderful it was when your pure body was next to mine and the feeling of you moving against me is one of those things that seems like heaven. You will please excuse this poor attempt at writing as this is something that I can't write about and make sense but I know you know what I mean. I guess the reason is that I feel it too deeply to be able to write it. Before I forget it I must tell you that this man [Siskin?] is hard to get rid of, so I would think twice before I would invite him down to Poughkeepsie. You know the old saying, "you give a Jew a inch and they will take a mile" don't take me wrong now. Just got my water colors back all matted and mounted and I think they look like they ought to do something for me. I have done ten of my best water colors since you left, five of them are large ones; one of the best is of a dory coming through the fog in the early morning. I'm sure you would like it. My father seems very pleased with what I have done. By the way, he is feeling much more like himself again and looks much better. I expect Macbeth here sometime this week so wish me luck. Say, "Wuthering Heights" is one of the most moving and powerful stories I have ever read. Emily Bronte writes the way I would like to paint. The trouble is I find this book hard to put down. The write James Boyd dropped in on us the other day. He is truly a splendid fellow and I think one of the best writers we have of his kind. Do you know his work. I certainly hope the weather is clear tomorrow so that I can get over to the island and finish that picture. Please take care of your self my love and remember I am thinking of you always. Andy Will write soon and write a good one Condition:
• Pair Meissen sweetmeat stands: male
  Pair Meissen sweetmeat stands: male and female figures decorated in pale lavender palette, both with blue crossed swords marks under glaze with accentuated pommels, probably late 19th century, each about 7-1/4 x 12-1/2 in. He with one foot repaired and losses to hair ribbon.
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Mailed Sunday, November 5, 1938 My Dearest, I have been doing through hell for the past week. I always felt that I could handle things so that nothing could bother me outside of my art but I certainly was wrong, in fact, I have been sick since I came home from Boston. To tell you the truth, when I first received your letter in Boston, I was the most happiest person alive, but when I began thinking of how long it would be before I could marry you it made me feel very sad, and I thought it best that I tell you not to wait for me. But this last week I have felt so lonely and blue thinking of you marrying someone else, but now I am mad, so just see what I do this next year. I am going to work like hell and really do things, and if you don't let me see you I will go crazy or some thing. Don't forget you are coming down to Carolyn's party. Write damn you my darling Andy [Accompanied by a newspaper clipping of a review of an AW exhibition] Condition:
• A Chanel Tan Tweed Jacket
  A Chanel Tan Tweed Jacket together with a matching blouse. Labeled: Chanel.
• A silver dwarf candlestick a silver
  A silver dwarf candlestick a silver heart shaped locket a silver vine and grapes brooch a Scottish style agate brooch and two white metal items a mate straw and a pillbox.
• Leo Meiersdorff (American,
  Leo Meiersdorff (American, 1934-1994) "I love you once, I love you twice, I love you like beans and rice", india ink and watercolor on paper, sight 24" x 34", titled, signed and dated lower right "Leo Meiersdorff". Glazed, matted and presented in a black lacquered frame.
• A Spanish mother-of-pearl, lace and
  A Spanish mother-of-pearl, lace and paper fan, circa 1900, each side with a scene of a lady in a sedan chair being engaged in conversation by a suitor on a terrace above, Cupid looking on, boxed
• TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH
  TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORETwo Letters from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Tuesday, August 24, 1937; mailed Wednesday, August 25, 1937 My Dearest, I'm counting the days till labor day, now please don't disappoint me by not coming or I will go crazy, I mean it. Say your letter was a swell bit of writing. I can't tell you how much they mean to me. You certainly do know how to express your self and if you write your book the way you write to me you certainly will go places. But really your letters are a great inspiration to me. You put into words things that I try to express in painting but I wish the devil I could write with your clearness. Today has been a typical Maine day with sparkling blue water and a strong north west breeze. In fact it was so windy it blew away a can I was working on up on a hill behind the port. It was lots of fun painting with one hand and holding the picture with the other. I got a good one out of it I think though. Tomorrow I got to make a trip down to Wilton, N.H. which I don't look forward to with much pleasure. But still I think it's rather important that I go. I probably told you about the E[…] who I know in New York who have bought several paintings of mine, well they have a summer home in Wilton and they have been after me to come down for the past three years and spend some time with them. I will be back here Saturday not to leave again for a good while I hope. I hope you will excuse my writing as I want to get this off in the mail. I'm crazy about you my darling and I want you not to forget me. Andy Wednesday, September 8, 1937; mailed Thursday September 9, 1937 My Dearest, It is ten thirty P.M. and I am alone at last for a few minutes. This is really the first time since you left I've had to write to you, but you have been on my mind constantly. I certainly am in a bad way about you what I mean is that I need you so God damn much and when you are not around I feel that part of me is gone. Although I know that when you are around I don't get much painting done but the only way I guess to fix that is getting married. I can't tell you how much it meant to me seeing you again. It has had a very stimulating effect on me and my work and I really feel that the next two months up here are going to mean something to me. But I want you so much Alice, that it's going to be hard to keep from rushing down and seeing you. I only hope that things will work out that we can live here together someday. I am going to keep hoping anyway. You are really something for me to work for and 'by God' I'm going to do it. If you will only learn to love me I will do anything for you, My Dear Alice anything. When I think of you and how your warm lips felt on mine I now and feel that you are meant for me. Andy [along margin] Excuse this writing Condition:
• UNSIGNED VICTORIAN PAINTING OF A
  UNSIGNED VICTORIAN PAINTING OF A YOUNG GIRL Sweet Little Red-Haired Girl in a green dress and coral bead necklace seated on a pouffe, holding aloft her Badminton birdie, her paddle in the other hand, looking at the viewer expectantly, surrounded by book, doll and geraniums. Housed in a dark oak ribbed frame, OS: 23 3/4" x 19 3/4", SS: 20 1/2" x 16 1/2". Cleaned and retouched.
• A lady's white metal chain mail
  A lady's white metal chain mail evening bag and two similar coin purses
• LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN,
  LETTER FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORELetter from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, January 16, 1938; mailed Monday January 17, 1938 Alice my dear, I have just come down from the studio where I have spent most of the day. Been thinking of you a great deal and wondering what gave you the strange idea that I don't like to hear from you. I really think you ought to be ashamed of your self. You have too much sense to act that way and you ought to know me well enough by now to understand I am very slow in getting things done and that isn't only in writing letters either. The truth is that after I receive a letter from you, it takes me quite a while to get over the feeling that I shouldn't even try to write letters to you. Well, enough of this, but I hope you understand that I want to hear from you . Read some more of Eugene Delacroix's journals today, and he spoke of making some studies of a female model and unhappily, he said she carried off part of the energy that he wanted for the day's work. It is a good thing you are not around me because I am sure I would have the same trouble. I seem to be getting along with my anatomy study. It takes me quite a while to get it but once I do, it sticks, by God. Did some fencing yesterday afternoon and got along pretty well too. You ever do any its good fun I think. My great grandfather was [sketch of two figures fencing, with other figure studies below, in margin "excuse this my dear"] So you see I might have a chance. Now keep at your writing and don't forget that I am thinking about you. Love Andy Condition:
• Robert E. Lee ALS 1835 Robert E.
  Robert E. Lee ALS 1835 Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). 3pp ALS with military content dated February 18 1835 at Washington addressed to My Glorious Jack (Jack Mackay Lee's West Point roommate and one of his closest friends).?Holding the rank of second lieutenant at the time of writing Lee was serving as an assistant in the chief engineer's office in Washington but was anticipating an appointment to some project for the summer.? He makes clear his preference for hard work on a necessary project as opposed to an easier assignment guarding some far-flung or unimportant outpost:My opinion upon the matter has been formed from the little experience I have had of a Garrison life in time of Peace where I have seen minds formed for use & ornament degenerate into sluggishness & inactivity requiring the stimulus of Brandy or Cards to rouse them to action and apparently a burden to the [?] and perhaps an injury to their companions.? I intend no compliment when I say I believe you are in no danger of the kind attended to or any other affecting the character of a Gentl' or officer and that your good sense & natural feeling will always prevent you from falling into such habits yet as in my own person[?] I shall not wish to be exposed to the temptation neither would I wish you.?Lee ended up being ordered to survey the Ohio/Michigan Territory border in anticipation of Michigan's admission to the Union which he indeed found challenging evidenced by a letter to his wife that summer in which he rebuked her for requesting his early return home by saying "I rather require to be strengthened & encouraged to the full performance of what I am called on to execute."? The task was certainly not a run-of-the-mill surveying job as the claims of both sides had resulted in the armed standoff known as the "Toledo War" and Lee's border became part of the final compromise.Lee uses the remainder of the letter to update Mackay with the latest news regarding their former classmates and mutual friends:.... Joe Johnston is here & from occasionally accompanying me over the [?] is in some danger of being caught by a pack of Blackeys.? Jim Z. is at Ft. Gibson Arkansas river.? Me & Mine are all well and after Congress rises[?] you will hear more of us.? My Brother Smith was married on the 5th inst. to Miss Hanie Mason we had a grand Frolick for the balance of the week. Condition: One third of the letter slightly faded but legibility is impeded more so by Lee's handwriting.
• A French gold love token
  A French gold love token inscribed 'Hier Aujourd'hui Demain Toujours' to one side and 'C.F.M to L.G.M France 1914' to the other, contained in a box of book form, a silver cigarette case and a silver plated shield from a trophy, the cigarette case approximately 125gm
• An amber necklace approx. 46 cm
  An amber necklace approx. 46 cm together with a silver mounted heart shaped amber brooch.
• TO SIR, WITH LOVE MOVIE POSTER
  TO SIR, WITH LOVE MOVIE POSTER Staring Sydney Poitier, 42 x 28 in., framed.
• Two similar Meissen porcelain sweet
  Two similar Meissen porcelain sweet meat baskets each with faces of the four seasons on each handle corner, 19th c. 5"h x 9"l x 5.75"w Condition: Good, dirty
• 1 piece. Autograph Note Signed.
  1 piece. Autograph Note Signed. Dickens, Charles. N.p., n.d. On sheet approx. 2 x 4 inches (508 x 100 mm). To Mrs. Fletcher, "I have read the book you mention'd to / me, highly praised; and I will share it / on your recommendation, forthwith / always Dear Madam, faithfully yours / Charles Dickens." Text & signature clear. Framed with modern portrait.
• Pastel on paper, attributed, "To My
  Pastel on paper, attributed, "To My Friend Lou", c. 1965, framed; as is condition, age wear, surface wear, surface soiling; sight L 11 1/2" H 16" (Approx.)
• WATCH AS WELL AS PRAY, ALL WILL
  WATCH AS WELL AS PRAY, ALL WILL BE RIGHT IN JESUS' NAME...Johnson, Mama, b. 1918 or 21 June 1921, d., Watch as well as Pray, All will be right in Jesus' name, 8 1/4"x10 1/4", 2002, marker on mat board, purchased from artist
• A silvery metal tumbler with raised
  A silvery metal tumbler with raised decoration of swags and cartouche enclosing an engraved monogram 3ins high a similar plain ditto 3ins high three pieces of Persian silvery metal items including one with an engraved Islamic decoration with Cyrillic script to centre and an Israeli silvery metal paper knife
• ENGLISH SILK ON LINEN SAMPLER, 19TH
  ENGLISH SILK ON LINEN SAMPLER, 19TH CENTURYENGLISH SILK ON LINEN SAMPLER, 19TH CENTURY, silk on linen, "Tell me ye knowing and difcerning few/Where I may find a friend both firm and true/Who dares ftand by me when in deep Diftrefs/And then his Love and Friendfhip moft exprefs." with crown, Adam and Eve, dog, rabbit, peacock, exotic bird, flowering urn, "Virtue the chiefett Beauty of the mind,/the nobleft Ornament of human kind:/ Virtue our Safeguard and our guiding Star, the ftars up Reafon when our Senfes err.", house, fence, figures, surrounded by a meandering border Provenance: An Old Town Alexandria Estate
• TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH
  TWO LETTERS FROM ANDREW WYETH (AMERICAN, 1917-2009) TO ALICE MOORETwo Letters from ANDREW WYETH (American, 1917-2009) to Alice Moore, Sunday, September 18, 1938; mailed Monday, September 19, 1938 My Dear, I find at this point that I can't paint another thing. The reason is that I am shipping all of my work off to New York tomorrow, and I have only one week left here in Port Clyde. I am so damn anxious to see you that seeing a paint brush drives me crazy. I have been thinking a great deal about your life you live in and I only wish the Hell I could do something about it. It seems to me the only thing that I am good for on this earth is art and sometimes I wonder about that. The work I have done this summer means nothing to me. In fact, I hope I never see it again. I have not started to paint yet. I am only building and that takes so long, by the time I am ready to paint I will be too old to do it. If I can move ahead quickly and sure, then I will show myself a painting that will live and then I will be happy to die. The longer I exist on this earth the less I care what people think about what I do. All the artists I know are so small, and that's why when I look at the work I have done I feel very sad because I know what I want to do, and if I don't, I'm as much a mess as the rest. But my dear I want and must have you behind me so please don't hate me when I am slow in writing. Remember we must not break up over such a small thing, we must be big people to do big things remember this. Your life must be very lonely but don't give up. I am working hard and I will show this mad world yet. Will write again before I leave. Am waiting to hold you in my arms and your lips are growing more and more to my fancy and I can't forget them. Andy Thursday, October 6, 1938; Mailed Monday, October 10, 1938 Thursday night, a week ago tonight I was in your arms my sweet. Dearest, Just a line to tell you that I am thinking of you. Am in the middle of jury duty at Philadelphia. What a life, too much for me. I feel as if I saw you a year ago and its hell. Will write a letter in a few days, but just wanted you to know that I am still on this earth. Now for God's sake don't stay in that little room of yours too much, remember you were put on this world to live. Love Andy Condition:
• Currier & Ives Lithograph ''My
  Currier & Ives Lithograph ''My Little Playfellow'' with girl and King Charles spaniel 9'' x 13'' image area.
• A yellow metal (tests 9 ct gold)
  A yellow metal (tests 9 ct gold) heart pendant on a similar (tests 14 ct gold) chain.