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 June 24, 1946
Dear Mr. Burbank,
Your letter arrived a few days before Davie's gift was received and I kept wondering ‘which cat picture?’ Now I know and send thanks to both you and Davie for the painting. It is just grand! You have made the cat so alive and I marvel how you capture true expression, as in the eyes. Both Phil and I like cats and have a lovely pet now which we adopted when she was five weeks old. Her name is Patsy and she was two in May. She is much company for me-- very devoted but not affectionate. She is black and grey tiger with white feet and chest and a bit of white 
on the left side of her face.
Did Davie tell you my birthday is August 8? And does that make us ‘twins of a sort’? I'm always interested in knowing people whose birthday is

from E.A. Burbank Papers [box 04], 1897-1949. Transcribed by Mjl1024 on 04/29/2020

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