Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid painting's canvas was almost certainly cut from the same bolt used for "Woman with a Lute". "Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid" is the first of the artist's experiments with centrifugal composition; where the focus is not only from the centre of the canvas. In addition, it is his third work in which the drama and dynamic is not centred on a single figure. The maid is shown standing in the mid-ground, behind her lady, with her hands crossed and waiting for the letter to be completed. The positions of their bodies indicate that the two women are disconnected.
The Night Letter have destroyed the negatives (which is manifestly untrue) and proceeds to imperiously demand the sacking of Jackson – obviously he is under the impression that he now holds Roosevelt's fate in his hand. Upon being shown this, the President presents a photo of his own, showing Hoover in a compromising position with a handsome young FBI agent. Roosevelt and Hoover would henceforth be tied to each other, "like convicts in chain gang", each able to destroy the other but only at the cost of his own destruction. The Night Letter The Night Letter is a 1978 book by Paul Spike,