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of the party & thus forgot all about it. In the strength of his getting off he had a [[?]] drinking around at his house & [strikethrough] [[?]] [/strikethrough] great many nice boys from the studio were there. I don't like lunch drinking so I took care to always spill all of mine on the floor. Some got a little lively & Bill saw a little of our tiny up which seemed to please him.
We got to bed though by eleven in spite of it & he formed some nice acquaintances.
Gerome has made a picture of Dante. No one else could have done it. No one else even if he might appreciate the granduer of Dante character could have rendered it. Some painters paint beautiful skin, some find happy bits of color, some paint soldier clothes, & costumes of Louis 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, & puppets & maukish unnatural or [strikethrough] sicking [/strikethrough] or sickul sentiment, some tin & earthen ware, some flowers always beautiful & sometimes too on canvas some make moonlights & some candle lights some make ships & some paint water & some paint allegories or fiddles or landscapes, angels or horseradishes but who [strikethrough][[?]][/strikethrough]can paint men like my dear.

Paris April Fools Day '69.
Dear Mommy, To day has been cloudy all day but it has not rained a drop. Yesterday it rained & the two days before it snowed & between the spells there were the heavy yellow Paris fogs. We have had to keep fire going all the time. [strikethrough] Next week we will enter into our new [/strikethrough] Saturday morning we enter into our new studio & get the stove up & I hope we will be all right on Sunday & everything fired then if the fine weather will only begin about Monday we will go to work with a will. The days are on the turn from long to short & if we keep our health we will put in some good days work this spring. We are both [[?]] well. My diarrhea [strikethrough] end [/strikethrough] turned to a cough for one day & then to a cold in the head the next & found another natural exit. [strikethrough] & its [/strikethrough] Bill is getting acquainted with the different boys & they all like him very much. He has been to Moores & we have gone to the Bonheurs three times. Germain Bonheur had to pass [strikethrough] before [/strikethrough] inspection to be a soldier. He has just the height to [strikethrough] a th [/strikethrough] the thickness of a sheet of paper. So he dared not go to bed the night before but walked about all night. Next morning he was short by I forget how much & went under the stick easily & so he was exempt because too little. In a month from now the great Spring exhibition of pictures will open. This will be a great treat to Bill for certain & I will be very glad myself for I am always anxious to see pictures. After I see them very few give me any pleasure but 

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