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Salviati & Co. = Venezia

S. Polo, Palazzo Bernardo

Venezia, li 4/12 1901

Mrs Jane L. Stanford

San francisco

Dear Madame

Miss Berner sent me the inscription you wanted
to be written on the mosaic picture on the front
facade of Church. We made a lot of trials, but
find it is absolutely impossible to succeed because
there are too many words. The letters would be
so small that I consider quite useless to put
them because nobody will be able to read them.
I therefore must ask you either to select a
verse with a few words or to abandon any
writing there- because I can assure you that
the expression of Christ- whose figure is quite
finished--tells the meaning of Mathew's verse -
just the same. I have written to Miss Berner
that the inscription cannot be put on the
two sides because it would be cut by the
trees & mountains, the space occupied by the
gold ground is too small to allow so many
words to be written -

I therefore have to beg of you to let it go -
or to send me by return of mail another ver[se]