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letterhead text Ripshin Farm Trout Dale, VA end letterhead text

About 1936 Dear Charles I must write at once to tell you how happy your letter made me. As for that stormy gale. Its there like the storm that swoops down over the old distillery on the Baltimore road, or the disease that attacks a tree or a cloud that changes the light on a landscape.

More and more Charles I believe in your painting - because I have lived with some of it.  You and John are the two young artists I believe in with all my heart - 

I won't say anything about the woman struggle. You know it. I don't know whether or not you are like me. In me the struggle is intense. I had thought you had more reserve? than I had. Perhaps