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HOSMER H.G June 11
c/o ? ? Hooker
Rome June 11
My dear Mrs Sewall
If you were not a very hard worker and therefore know that hard workers get time for nothing. I should not know what to say for having left so long unanswered your very kind and very flattering letter inviting me to take part in the Art Conference. Once I see my way clear working would have given and [?] [?] and I should
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have been indeed proud [?] so many of my distinguished sister as I know are now assembled at the world's congress. I have several things I should like to say about art but what I have to say I should like to present in a paper and carefully [sh?] form and at present I am taxed beyond my strength. When you see what I have had in hand and unless earthquakes and cyclones
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[?] you will see at no [?] day I think you ? give [?] a long [cheer?]. ? for diligence airing hereafter ? came of the present delay is my apperance.
I derive a certain satisfaction from the report that HGH is not the only thing behind time and a still greater satisfaction that all accounts agree in placing our Exhibition at the head of all Exhibition which is exactly as it should be.
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As the details of the fair I know very little for [whom?] sends me papers from home as I am not supposed to be here and the [?] papers tell us little because everybody supposed to be there but I know that the [?] have come to the fore in grand style and not in the great thing just now.
I am counting the days till I get away and wish I were in Chicago at this very moment.
Yours always faithfully HG Hosmer