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CC: Mrs Milton W Harrison
August 21, 1951
Dear Mick:
First, to reply to your letter of August 18 sent to the brothers and sisters:
It is agreeable with me to leave the matter of the boundary line across the island east of the boat house for settlement between the buyer and whoever we delegate to negotiate the sale. My guess is that the buyer will want our entire half of the island. If he is satisfied with the boundary line somewhere between the boat house and the “Green Spot” (the quarter-mile path), then I think we should keep the remainder of our half of the island as one section of land, or, at the most, two sections of land. I do not like the idea of dividing this section of the island into six parcels so that each brother and sister can independently own one particular parcel. If one member of the family wanted to use his parcel for a summer camp, he would have no protection if the other five members wanted to sell their parcel and he could not afford to buy the other five parcels.
I think you did right in leaving the birch-bark canoe as a fixture to be sold with Cedar Lodge. As for the other items, I hope you are right in your feeling that their removal has not detracted from the general atmosphere of the place and that a prospective buyer will not notice any bareness due to their removal.
I believe that’s about all of the comments your letter calls for in regard to Cedar Lodge. Now to get on the subject of photography:
From the enclosed invitation you will see that we are going to show our European pictures to the family at large on next Tuesday at the Woman’s City Club. I don’t suppose you and Nancy can make a special trip up here just for the occasion, but if you can get away, I surely hope you come. You will be interested to see with your own eyes what I learned when I made some tests on two different types of screens before I decided on which one to buy. You may remember that you thought a good many of my slides were not true in their color values due to my having used the Eastman sky filter. When I was making my tests, I had three screens lined up side by side so that I could project one slide half on one screen and half on the other. I was surprised to find how the old screen in the Music Room and also my old screen did not show the color up to the best advantage. I now have a new 70 x 70 beaded glass screen that will make you very pleased with the pictures which you thought were “off-color” due to the sky filter.
Of course, I am still penalized by the improper developing that was done in Europe on quite a few of my Ansco and Ektachrome rolls, but, even so, they show up better on the new screen than they did on the old screens that have a yellow cast to them. Since all Kodachrome rolls have to be sent to Eastman for development, whereas they refuse to handle Ektachrome development since they want their dealers to get this business, my feeling is that you are surer of getting standard results with Kodachrome than you are with Ektachrome or Ansco. When properly developed, I believe I prefer Ansco to Ektachrome.
If you are going to be able to come up for the big party next Tuesday, be sure to let me hear from you by next Monday, as the Woman’s City Club wants to know the definite number to plan on at least 24 hours in advance.
With love to you and Nancy,
Affectionately,
Bill
Mr Frank A Seiberling, Jr
Powell, OhioTranscriber
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