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2652 Maryland Ave. Baltimore 18, Md.
Jan. 26, 1957Dear Roger,
Sorry not to have answered your welcome letter sooner, but, first, I was so delighted to have found a suitably appreciative recipient for Joe's clipping, second, we have all been having colds privatim et seriatim, and, third, I had all the terracotta stuff packed up, and kind of shuddered at the idea of hauling it out. Which reminds me, will the Museum accept the charges collect, if we send it off to you? It's in reasonably good shape still, if we file as far as filing is concerned and includes all films, photographs, bad or good, notebooks and heaven only knows what. I exoect via Railway Express it might run, with insurance, to about $5.00 - I don't think more.
However, I have hauled out the catalogue blanks for the pieces you asked about, and am enclosing them. Relevant information follows:
No. 1053 (T 1035; 54-28-96). Dobbin. I don't think any photographs were ever taken of the non-joining pieces. Christos kept hauling sacks of stuff from the "garage", and every once in a while I would spot one, and add it to my collection, all of which was at that time stored in a white sack behind Dobbin himself; my hope was that perhaps something would eventually come to light to make a join somewhere. The hands I am absolutely sure about, and almost so about the fragment of neck, but the others are only attributed on the basis of clay and magnitude.
No. 1520 (T 1004; 54-28-93). Syrian rider. Again, I have the notion that the tail of the horse was never photographed. It is certain that it belongs, and, again, was always stored with the rider, and I doubt whether you will numbered T 1004 B. I doubt whether you will recapture it now, and if you do I can't see what you will do with it, but it is nice to be neat.
No. 1005 (T 1054; 54-28-100). As published, there are two from the same mold, one dark red clay, one powdery-buff, and there were clay, or whatever we called it, and there were enough pieces of each to more or less reconstruct the photographs of the figure. I enclose the negative of the photograph of the hand, holding the bird, There are other oddments on the negative, but photographs of those fragments didn't seem worth publishing.
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Handwritten marginalia in pencil, left margin and top: illegible, ~40 words, including "Dobbin" and "Dobbin under 'Notes'"
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain