As for the scenes at my office
I have nothing but praise for your work.
Just the amount of detail is extraordinary
& where your picture has departed from fact
I think I can see the reasons for what you’ve done.
However, I have two secretaries
& you have shown only one. Also, as I have pointed out,
I take frequent trips to Chicago,
staying there weeks at a time-& where
on the wall of this tomb is there any indication of that?
I have enjoyed your representation of my wife.
You manage to capture just those qualities
that make people love her. But somehow you miss
what it is that sets my son Richard apart.
At least you could show him carrying books, & in a darker
suit.
My daughters, however, are excellent–so true to life!
But you must, beneath the figures, write their names:
Margaret is the one teasing a cat; while this is Laura
on the telephone; & the little one, Amy,
is alone in her bedroom, watching teevee.
As for this scene, where you have shown me at my pleasures
this has been your masterpiece.
I have never seen such realism. Unfortunately,
however, I cannot allow these to remain here.
But if they could be detached—is this possible?—without
damaging the wall, I would pay whatever it would cost,
above and beyond that which has been agreed to already,
if you would re-install them in an apartment here in town.
I will furnish you with the address,
if you can accept so unofficial a commission.
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