[An order for a picture.]
Dear Sirs: I am sending you two photos and $5. I want you to have this
work done as perfect as possible, there is a little alteration which I
want made, which you will see as follows. Take the man from the single
picture, which is my father, and paint him standing behind my mother
which is setting in the chair on the grupe picture, or put him setting
in another chair beside the girl on the same picture whichever you think
will look the best to make a good picture, but I want the four persons
in one big good picture. You will see that the picture has a redish
flair, please try to get the others without any of that, also you will
see that our eyes in the grupe picture is raised too high, please fix
them looking natural, also put our eyebrows thick and natural, and make
our faces as pleasant looking as possible, also you will notice in the
picture that the girls dress is not sitting good from the waist down,
please fix that setting smoothly as the breeze was blowing so hard in
the yard that I could not keep my skirt setting in good shape around me,
so please rectefy all these foults which I mention and make me a good
picture as I want it to keep in memory of my family as we are now; you
may put it in rich brown or sepia pastel whichever you think suits the
picture the best, let the photoes be enlarged but full stature the same
as the origenal.
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