danger here, for I am afraid, that I live

out my forthcoming pictures and am finished

with them before they are executed in

practice, – they begin to ferment,

while they still only exist in my head.

And then when I have a picture completed in my

head, I look back with distain at all my

earlier things as daubing and trifling.

Your last letter has incidentally made me

uneasy with regard to one matter: How quickly

in this world one can become the victim

of a lie – it was not a will-

ful lie ~~{…} {…}~~ ^{on my} part in any case – I must

have expressed myself poorly, when I attributed

Meyer with the belief, that You "raised the prices" of the pictures

that You negotiate for Mùnch and me.

But I remember ~~last summer~~, that You Mrs Höst

said last summer, that "Meyer did not have the op-

portunity to haggle over the price of Mùnchs pictures

because Mùnch had Höst as an intermediary

or dealer". When I recently suggested to Meyer

to send the pictures (for him) via You

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