Letter from Edith Wharton to Ogden Codman Jr.

Transcription of a c. 1896 letter from Edith Wharton to Ogden Codman Jr. The reference used in exhibition label is in BOLD. 

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Thursday [1896?] 

884 PARK AVENUE 

Dear Coddy, 

Mr. McKim has sent / me three pages of notes / on the Introductory Chapter / of the book, & as some of his suggestions are very / good, & as he represents / the “high-water-mark” / of criticism in that line / in America I think it / would be well in some / respects to remodel the / Introduction – or rather, / a few pages of it – The other chapters he entirely / agrees to, which is nice. 

I send you a page of / the Introduction to be / re-typed, as I found, to  

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notes – 

I shall be in at tea / time any day, but I / can’t work then, so it / isn’t much use. 

Yrs sincerely

E. Wharton