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“The willow” which you found to be a somewhat

“secondary” print, I shall print again and send

together with “foxgloves” – if only

Kreyberg doesn’t find this one to be “secondary” as well

I have at least taken greater

pains with this print than with the two prints, that I

have previously printed of it, – but now the

woodblocks are ready for the chopping block. –––

Thank you for the 100 kr., – they arrived opportunely but disappeared

the same day. ––– I have been out at

Nesset and trimmed your trees, – the two old alders

(which were butchered by the previous leaseholders), I

have chopped the jutting limbs off of close to the

trunk, – unfortunately “heart rot” has already set in (decay at

the centre), – but perhaps in time it can grow back. The

small willows (a total of 3), which Mrs. Aagot found

so decorative I have trimmed ^{and bound the wounds with peat} of all the stumps

that were left by the goats of “the Øia people”. There are

many ugly broken up rocks in the scree by the house,

these I will try to get rid of – (If only I had

a stump puller; – shall we buy one together? – then

you can easily build that wall along the road; –

in Nordfjord one uses stump pullers in the countryside

much more cheaply than at Neymann’s.). ––– Well

you and your family must live well – with best wishes from

all of us here. Your Astrùp _{(Hope that Marigold Nights will not be}

_{considered a “secondary” product – I took greater pains than usual [with it].)}

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