Typed postcard signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1950 [i.e. 1960] July 16.

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Typed postcard signed : Silver Lake, N.H., to Mina Curtiss, 1950 [i.e. 1960] July 16.

Sending "just a proverbial line" to say that he is enjoying the Degas book. Hoping that she isn't misbehaving "too strenuously," and noting that "nobody but a saint ever was patient, but anyone has a right to try to be."

1 item (1 p.) ; cm. + envelope.

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