July 27th, 1916

Miss Elsie R. Clapp,
38 Eden Street,
Bar Harbor, Me.

My dear Miss Clapp:

I was delighted to get your cordial letter of July 25th, and am hastening to tell you that we are making a small collection of painted furniture representing a kidney table, a bath room set, a few odd stools, etc., to send out in the early part of next week.

We will also send you a few things from my department in the way of sketches and drawings, which may be followed up in a week or two by some lamp shades.

I have been called out of town and won't be back until Monday, and I just wanted to send you this hurried little note to tell you how deeply I appreciated your letter and how glad I am to co-operate with you.

I heard a great deal about your Shop last winter and I was so sorry not to get in touch with you as I had hoped. However I am sure that either we will meet this summer at Bar Harbor, if I can spare the time to visit Miss Harold Bauer who is also at Seal, or else we will meet again next autumn.

I certainly remember our rides together and our pleasant times.

With cordial greetings, believe me,
Dated but not read.

UNITED STATES FUEL ADMINISTRATION

WASHINGTON, D. C.

January 29, 1918.

IN YOUR REPLY REFER TO

Cooperative Mural Workshop,
311 Fourth Ave.,
New York City, N. Y.

Gentlemen:-

I believe that you are a creditor to the amount of
$61.07, in your account with Miss E. R. Clapp, doing business
under the name of "Another Shop".

I regret to advise you that Miss Clapp has recently
undergone a surgical operation which has left her in a condition
where she is unable to continue her business. I am informed
that after a proper period of rest she will be restored to
complete health, but that she will not be able to resume her
responsibilities for at least a year.

It develops that she has no resources whatever to
meet her outstanding indebtedness. She has been doing
business in a most hand-to-mouth fashion without a cent of
capital since she started this shop, and a bad year just
closed has left her without assets, other than her own ability.
It becomes necessary then, to ask her creditors to wait with
what patience they may until she is again on her feet physically.
This is by no means to be construed as a repudiation of her
debts. I know that I speak with her authority when I state that
she has every desire to settle these accounts at the earliest
possible moment, and it is only by her physicians most positive
orders that she is not now working to that end.

During this period of enforced rest, I have consented
to handle Miss Clapp's business correspondence, and I would ask
that you address any communications on the above to me here.

LRC/KG

Yours very truly,

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CO-OPERATIVE MURAL WORKSHOPS

136 Front Street
New York

February 16th, 1918

Mr. L.R. Clapp,
U.S. Fuel Administration,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Clapp:

Your letter of January 29th has been received, and as
President of the Co-operative Mural Workshops I wish to express to
you my very sincere sympathy for your sister's illness, which I
hope you will extend to her.

I am extremely sorry that she met with such a disaster when
she attempted another shop in New York. It is quite a different
matter to run a shop in a summer resort than to enter the competi-
tive world in New York City. I often wonder how she dared to at-
tempt it, considering that she was only able to give Saturdays and
Sundays to the shop, and did not have a trusted and trained repres-
tative who understood her methods and her aims, to leave in charge.

Another shop owes the Co-operative Mural Workshops $41.07, as
$20.00 of the $61.07 were paid last spring.

Again expressing my sincere sympathy and hoping that your
sister will recover both her health and her obligations sooner than
she anticipates, believe me,

Sincerely yours,