Beginning of Page 1 58 West 57th Street, New York, 19th October 1898.

–OFFICE OF– OCT 20 1898 Ans'd H. C. FRICK.

My dear Mr. Frick, I stopped in at Knoedler's this morning and learned that the frame for " A Rainy Day" will be finished in about another week. They will then ship the picture to you at Homewood. I think the new frame will suit it very well and will have a look at it before it is roped up. As the signature on the canvas shows, "A Rainy Day" was painted in 1897. It is similar in motif?, as I told you, to "The Rain" at the Metropolitan Museum. In "The Rain" the shower or storm is just passing off over the hill. In "A Rainy Day" it is more of a settled rain with no sure

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