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One Day’s Difference

July 2026
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It turns out it was Thursday in New York, too, though Douglas Southall Freeman’s biography of Washington, which was our source, said Friday .

The Editors

Correction

In our February/March 1984 issue, the portfolio “The Flowering of American Flower Painting” is excerpted from a book , Reflections of Nature: Flowers in American Art, by Ella Foshay. We incorrectly stated the name of the publisher. The book was actually published by Alfred A. Knopf and serves as a catalog for an exhibit of the same name at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York .

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