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still I am just as anxious to see more.

Dear Fannie I have heard a good bit of good music since I have been here, for I've not been able yet to get to any work but my regular studio work at school [[strikethrough]] because last Sundays [[/strikethrough] Sunday we went to one of Pasdeloups concerts & heard Beethoven's 4th Symphonie such as I never yet heard it. The slow part you used to play was beautiful. [[strikethrough]] Good Friday [[/strikethrough]] & they played Haydns little andante [[strikethrough]] with that pretty [[/strikethrough]] the one with the one pretty little tune in it & only one.

Good Friday we went again to a Pasdeloup sacred concert & here's
the programme. Overture of Oberon
Weber Fantasy on Othello for fiddle
Ernest by Mr Wilhelmy to show off his fiddling.
Ave Maria Cherubini
March funeral of the heroic Symphony Beethoven 
The Infancy of Christ Berlioz (because he's just died)
Overture
Chorus of Shepherds
Going to sleep of the Holy Family
Air for Violin   Bach
Played by Vilhelmy
Hymn[[strikethrough]]e[[/strikethrough]]  Haydn

[Thos. eakins "AAA"].

Stabat Mater  Rossini
If there is noise enough to interfere with the noise of a flea hopping Pasdeloup wont commence or will stop the music, so there were some delays occasioned by people suffocating & crying out for air or to be let out but these apart everything passed on all right.
  
We are going some nights to the circus. This is the first thing I know of in Paris. Men & horses in motion. Nothing can [[strikethrough]] never [[/strikethrough]] ever be finer. If Paradise is prettier than this part of the circus I want to see it. [[strikethrough]] By keeping which [[/strikethrough]] Bill Sartain is very much pleased with Paris. He likes it exceedingly. 
I have tried to keep away any little disagreeable things & show him the bright parts as much as I can. There are a good many Americans in his school & [[strikethrough]] he g [[/strikethrough]] that makes him feel less strange but I will get him gradually more & more with the French for my comrades are superior to [[strikethrough]] his over there [[/strikethrough]] the Americans of Yvon's. He saw a good many of them together at Bonheurs. I told you how  Bonheur was too little so as to tell you