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To Mrs. S. B. Shaw.

1880.
I wish you could see Miss Whitney's Sam. Adams. I never saw an image so full of life; not even the Minute Man at Concord. An acquaintance sent a very human-looking doll to a little friend, five years old. When a neighbor exclaimed, “What a pretty doll!” the child said, “You mustn't call it doll, it's a little girl. She can't walk and talk now, but she will by and by.” When I returned from Miss Whitney's studio, I was asked, “How did you like the statue?” I replied, “You must not call it a statue, it's a man. It will walk and talk by and by.”

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