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@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth_year: @date_1866, death_year: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer"}
@alice_austen_house:organization {name: "Alice Austen House", location: @staten_island}
@alice_austen_business_correspondence:collection {title: "Alice Austen Business Correspondence Collection", created: @date_1894, description: "Business-related correspondence to Alice Austen, including discussions about pianos, music, and photography.", institution: @alice_austen_house, location: [@new_york, @staten_island]}
@william_c_howe:person {full_name: "William C. Howe"}
@frederick_c_lewis:person {full_name: "Frederick C. Lewis"}
@miss_walker:person {title: "Miss Walker"}
@miss_foster:person {title: "Miss Foster"}
@piano:concept {type: "musical instrument"}
@music:concept {type: "art form"}
@photography:concept {type: "visual art"}
@victorian_era_social_life:concept {type: "social practice"}
@letter_1894_05_12_jones:document {date: @date_1894_05_12, author: @william_c_howe, recipient: @miss_walker, location: @new_york, mentions: [@piano, @music]}
@letter_1894_03_28_foster:document {date: @date_1894_03_28, author: @frederick_c_lewis, recipient: @miss_foster, location: @new_york, mentions: [@victorian_era_social_life]}
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@alice_austen_business_correspondence -> held at -> @alice_austen_house
@alice_austen_business_correspondence -> subject -> [@piano, @music, @photography, @victorian_era_social_life]
@alice_austen_business_correspondence -> includes -> @letter_1894_05_12_jones
@alice_austen_business_correspondence -> includes -> @letter_1894_03_28_foster
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@letter_1894_05_12_jones -> mentions -> @piano
@letter_1894_05_12_jones -> mentions -> @music
@letter_1894_03_28_foster -> mentions -> @victorian_era_social_life
@letter_1894_05_12_jones -> sent to -> @miss_walker
@letter_1894_03_28_foster -> sent to -> @miss_foster
@letter_1894_05_12_jones -> authored by -> @william_c_howe
@letter_1894_03_28_foster -> authored by -> @frederick_c_lewis
@date_1866
@date_1952
@date_1894
@date_1894_05_12
@date_1894_03_28
@new_york:place {city: "New York", state: "New York", country: @united_states}
@staten_island:place {borough: "Staten Island", city: "New York City", country: @united_states}80 West 102 St. New York, May 12, 1894 Dear Miss Walker, Your note is at hand and I can only apologize for not answering it sooner. Your argument in question you state and the terms in which you follow. I have never heard your views and therefore must see in a single word's sense, you and have never known order—a word to speak of itself is so simple that he would know if a couple of letters were not one less be immorally in position. The "evil" of which you speak is merely a matter of fine tuning and so therefore easily eradicated; the piano of which we looked are not on perfect tune or too often. With regard to the "mixing" of the which is called by other scales, I reply being occasionally a piano is found in
cuse his sister for it, nor even when the strong rest & slight juggling will occur, and then the dupler has to be watched lest this is ever hers, and of course the unlettered do not select their instruments. It is but reasonable that you should seek all possible knowledge so to the limits your powers allow, and I am only too glad to measure to the best of my knowledge As I said before I have carried them any distance that's possible with me a while and have examined all the houses. One dearer (W and H) in particular to impression changed from W's in several ways. It's clear in St Pauls so charming & you can tell you the same now finished!! I think time comes all you magazines and I can only say that if I can serve you any further you may call upon me soon to again looking at the prices before it is too difficult. Sincerely yours, William C. Howe
New York, March 28, 1894 Dear Miss Foster, I called at home last evening and was unable to find you. I am afraid I have missed the final notice from the city superintendent and never from your more beautiful school. I send you an interesting piece of literature received by me from whom you may hear someday and can only hope you will receive it right. Remember your lesson has to be for all practical purposes, or he who is near us goes elsewhere to the sea. I am sure you know as I am a way he and I have no Sincerely yours, Frederick C. Lewis
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