Julie Loquidis and Brinsley Burbidge 1793 E Taylor Ave Cottage Grove, OR 97424 541 942 9936 [email protected] [email protected] www.julieandbrinsley.com Mr. Jeffrey Epstein 6100 Red Hook Quarters, B-3 St. Thomas, VI 00802 February 13, 2012 Dear Jeffrey, We're now in our fourth year away from LSJ and we still think back to some of the good times we had working for you. We wonder how you are and what the landscape looks like and we wonder about the people with whom we used to work, especially our "crew". We haven't been any good at keeping in touch so maybe those questions will always be unanswered. We want to let you know that we have positive and happy memories of our time working for you on LSJ. This letter has a further purpose: Over the past two years Julie has been creating a series of collage/paintings based on her early life in Kenya and more recently on a series of US Virgin Island pictures. She has made one painting for you and, if you agree, we would like to send it to you as a present. The picture is made of numerous tiny paper tiles and some of the tiles are fragments of the pencil notes you gave us as landscape suggestions. The US flag is part of the Virgin Islands' identity and also somewhat represents LSJ - I'm sure you have heard that a local way of identifying LSJ is "the island with two US flags". The picture is 24"x48" with a hemlock frame and is rather heavy so we would rather send it to your New York office (we don't have the current NY address.) We enclose a small photo and you can also see it on our website at wwwfulleandbrinsley.com. Very briefly, we returned to the "mainland" at a very tough financial time for everyone. We knew there were no opportunities for us in the gardening world (especially with tropical experience counting for little in the wet northwest) so we set up a photographic EFTA01177125