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elephant head is kept strictly true & the markings are dirty & hard & oh how sorrowful. You can almost cry to look at him. His walk is heavy & slow & big steps down the path. He is not noticing anything around him. He is thinking of Florence & Bice & Heaven. So much for Dante now for the composition I had better draw it. 

[[image: drawing with people and children]]

It is just out of some Italian city Florence I think from those towers that cupola 1 that looks like Brunelleschi's & 2 that looks like that tower near our hotel there & the mountain line there. There's the pretty level [[strikethrough]] gardens [[/strikethrough]] meadow. The sun is setting to the left redding the dust & air over the
grass & trees & city so as to almost hide them
A long ray shot through some low unseen cloud

[ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART 
MISC. MSS. THOMAS EAKINS ROLL 640:/489]. 

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