MY DEAR MISS GRANGER:

I dread to answer your note, since it must be a refusal of

your request, for the little printing is the property of a

friend of mine, who has left it, together with a few others,

in my care during her tour in Europe. The fact that she has

a morbid dislike to having duplicate copies made of her

pictures, forces me to deny a request that, were the

painting in question mine, I would gladly grant.

Sincerely your friend,

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