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F. W. HATFIELD STuyvesant 9-5886

                                                         HOTEL MARLTON
                                                    3-5 West 8th Street, Next 5th Avenue
                                                                       NEW YORK
                                                                                                                  Feb 23-35

Chicago Arts Club Dear Miss Roullier, I take pleasure in your Club honoring me with your March Show of my paintings.

 Some old friends surviving

among Chicago's most prominent politicians, business men, bankers, editors of whom I had for friends a hundred during my practicing architecture in your City 1896-1900 may stare bewildered at my change.

    The whole press has so liberally

haunted? the pictures and my person that I have hardly any curiosity as to how they'll fare at the thumbs of the Drainage Canal -"Canaille".

 What I am more anxious

about is that the paintings come back unharmed, unscratched.

 I gave Mrs. Mary Harriman

a note that I inspected them and found them O.K and likewise in other pen Receivedunderlined that way Colors of Dawn has some small scratches in grey borderunderlined