From William Patrick SHEEHAN
® . . . . . . Received: Friday, November
21, 2003 1:06 AM
Subject: coming
to
November 20, 2003
Dear Masatsugu,
It is a great pleasure to hear from you as
always. I understand how the great strain
of observing Mars as intently as you have done would have affected your health
in the way it has -- the planet has remained so close to the Earth for so long,
and (though muted) the surface features have remained visible. It has been an excess of opportunity for
those of us whose passion is for the Red Planet.
I am glad to accept formally the invitation
to join you in
I hope this weekend to put together for you JPGs of all my Mars sketches from Lick. I apologize for not getting around to them
until now, but I have been extremely harassed professionally.
Please accept my warm appreciation for
finding out the information about the wonderful painting.
I will be in touch again next day or two.
All the very best, ever,
® . . . . . . Date: Sun,
23 Nov 2003 15:29:12 -0600
Subject: RE:
painting identification
Dear Masatsugu,
I am starting to send you as JPEGs some of
the sketches from my Lick Observatory notebook.
I will send only a few at a time so as not to overwhelm you. I will follow them with data concerning the
observations.
Yours ever,
Bill SHEEHAN (