A handwritten letter from, and on the letterhead of, American Impressionist landscape painter Edward W. Redfield, a significant member of the New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania art colony. Redfield’s letter describes an invitation he is responding to from a Miss Dunham. She was a local elementary school teacher, and she had invited Redfield to visit her class. Redfield replies that it would be a frightening experience were he to speak in front of her class. He likens the experience to having the St. Vitus Dance or in other words, he would have the “shakes” addressing her class. He offers her instead to have her class visit him at his art studio. The letter is autograph “E. W. Redfield” and is additionally autographed with Redfield’s initials.