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COPY IN LETTER BOOK

New York, January 29, 1918.

My dear Roland:

I hand you herewith a letter from your artistic friend, the sculptor. I am sick and tired of this business. The busts he made of Adelaide are abortions and I propose to smash them; I have never liked them - they do not look like her. The one he made of me is equally unsatisfactory, and I do not propose to give him another sitting and I want it destroyed. I mean exactly what I say regarding this, and the next time I am in your establishment I propose to see that it is destroyed.

Settle with him, be liberal, and advise me the amount and I will send you a check.

I know that you did this all from the best motive, but my judgment in this matter, which intimately concerns myself, must be final.

Yours very sincerely,

[Henry Clay Frick]

Mr. Roland F. Knoedler, 556 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.