Brady To Go To Harvard?

In Early February Mr. Eric Weinberger wrote:

Dear Mr. Phillips:

Thank you for the letter and for the handsome book that arrived in our office today. We are just not sure what you are asking for. Is it Matthew Brady whom you “would love to get [him] into Harvard,” and what exactly do you mean by that?

Sincerely,
Eric Weinberger
Office of the President
Harvard University
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Mr Phillips Answered:

Dear Mr. Weinberger,

I did not intend to be cryptic when I wrote Ms. Faust that I hoped Mathew Brady could get into Harvard. Periodically, Brady would muse over how lovely it could have been had he attended your university.
Since he died in 1896, this clearly will not be possible, but then I got the idea of offering Harvard one of the paintings of Brady illustrated in our new book which I sent you.

It is not the same thing as his attendance, but hopefully a good idea. Let me know what president Faust thinks.

Sincerely,
John Phillips
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Dear Mr. Phillips:

. . . Thanks for the clarification –

Sincerely,
Eric Weinberger

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Brady of Broadway at the Olpalka Gallery

Brady Through a Glass Door, 2006,
oil on canvas, 70×40 inches

Brady of Broadway returns to his roots upstate to show at the well-designed Olpalka gallery in Albany, June 4-July 30, 2010. Still working out details but oils and watercolors will portray status and celebrity as staged by the 19th century photographer.