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Letter from Francis Davis Millet to Henry Clay Frick, 25 October 1897
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aside all my model studies and beg others from my volunteers so that now there are figures on the canvas as large as life and several times as national, Mrs F. D. . The Misses Barnard, Lady Eccles, Lady Blomfield, Mrs Phil May, Mary de Navarro (Mary Anderson) and several others. Sixteen figures in all. (And when I say as large as life I really mean larger than life for they are 7'6" high). | aside all my model studies and beg others from my volunteers so that now there are figures on the canvas as large as life and several times as national, Mrs F. D. . The Misses Barnard, Lady Eccles, Lady Blomfield, Mrs Phil May, Mary de Navarro (Mary Anderson) and several others. Sixteen figures in all. (And when I say as large as life I really mean larger than life for they are 7'6" high). Well the canvas is now about completed and I am planning to come over and see that it looks right in place. If I do come I shall be there before Christmas and will certainly look you up if for nothing else for the satisfaction of giving you a small piece of my alleged mind for coming to London this summer without giving me an opportunity of letting you decline an invitation to visit us here. I know how busy one is when he makes a brief visit abroad and I also know that on occasion it is a relief to come to the country for a day. And I have a secret belief and an open hope that both you and your wife will sometime find your way here and get the [[ ?? ]] | ||
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aside all my model studies and beg others from my volunteers so that now there are figures on the canvas as large as life and several times as national, Mrs F. D. . The Misses Barnard, Lady Eccles, Lady Blomfield, Mrs Phil May, Mary de Navarro (Mary Anderson) and several others. Sixteen figures in all. (And when I say as large as life I really mean larger than life for they are 7'6" high). Well the canvas is now about completed and I am planning to come over and see that it looks right in place. If I do come I shall be there before Christmas and will certainly look you up if for nothing else for the satisfaction of giving you a small piece of my alleged mind for coming to London this summer without giving me an opportunity of letting you decline an invitation to visit us here. I know how busy one is when he makes a brief visit abroad and I also know that on occasion it is a relief to come to the country for a day. And I have a secret belief and an open hope that both you and your wife will sometime find your way here and get the ??