make an exception for You, –

as I am certain that You will “keep

quiet” about the prices both of

this and the 3 pictures, which you got for

a cheap price last year, – and I will

in return be “reasonable” about

“the marigold picture”, which You have commissioned, –

hope that I can achieve a very

good result – people have become so

good at farming here, that all the

lush waterlogged meadows, that were yellow

with marigolds before, are now transformed into

cultivated fields, but I will

do my best to find

a place now in the spring with large quantities of

marigolds, – for it is surely all the same to You

whether it is from the same place, as the

picture that ^R. Meyer purchased for his collection

and which his family has now retrieved to-

gether with the best of my other things – contrary to

R. Meyer’s promise – when he got them at half price.

With best wishes Your devoted

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