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acceptance of the photographs and the record of me 1n the Index of Twentieth Centllll1 a#IIII# artists to keep on file among r,q publicity material and for private satist..otion chiefly'.

I reel like a little boy who has been presented with his fi~st state flag. Very Sincerely' yours,

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Marsden Hartley, West Brooksville, Maine. c/o Bvans. · Until Sept. 20th. I will know by then where I shall bes ettled 1n Bangor,and am planning to go up to Mt.Katabdin and stay a week to get some portrait material or that wonderful .,.auntain,and I think it most laudable that Bx.Gov.~ter should feel With such high dignity,the value of giving that inspiring mountain back to itself ,a' very great and noble gesture,s.ince n~ it_rea'n regain I its original strength and beauty.

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