From Brinsley Burbidge and Julie Loquidis 251 West Broadway Eugene OR 97401 Tel: Email: Web: www.julicandbrinslev.com To: Jeffrey Epstein, Little St. James Dear Jeffrey, It is now close to eight years since we worked for you and we still have fond memories about our time on LSJ. It was a great job for both of us and we owe you a debt of thanks for trusting us to steer your garden for a couple of years. However frustrating and difficult some of the staff we supervised were, we developed a considerable affection for so many of them. They, on the whole, did a good job for you and they were often a great source of amusement, probably to you also. As you know we decided to head for the Pacific Northwest and settled in a little town called Cottage Grove. We bought a home and lots of furniture and worked on creating a great garden. Then we rented a downtown property in an old hotel, renovated to space to serve as a studio and set up a photographic business doing everything from portraits and weddings to selling prints for interior decoration. It was not an easy time to create a photography business with the downturn from the 2008 "crisis" cutting back on everyone's disposable income compounded with the rise of cellphone cameras eliminating so much photographic work. After four years of hardly making any money we closed the business in 2012 and decided to concentrate on our own creative output. Julie had some considerable success painting and selling the work privately and through juried shows in Oregon (getting "Best of Show" in the Mayors Art Show in Eugene) and selling for up to $1600 per painting. Brinsley continued to do what he thinks were interesting works but hardly anyone buys photography. As a wise friend of ours once said "work is not art until it sells, otherwise it is a storage problem". If you ever get the chance you can check out both of our work on our website (N% %NAN julicandbrinsley.com). So, a year ago we decided to join the c