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The Bostonians have music on the brain now or had. God forbid that they should get art there or they will get some hundred firemen to copy a Gerome or Meissonier a thousand times bigger than the original to hang in their coliseum.  [[strikethrough]] Its a good word coliseum. It sounds like Boston. [[/strikethrough]]  For all [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] its bigness though old fashioned people like you & me will continue to like the little original the best, and so will I hope [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] most all Philadelphians with us & so will New York probably.

New York [[strikethrough]] to my [[/strikethrough]] is composed largely of rowdies prize fighters jail birds swindlers pickpockets, & Boston of scientific ladies and gentlemen who know professors intimately.  The New Yorkers are the most intelligent & least pretentious & I like them the best. The sweetest young man I ever knew came from Boston & went to see Mrs. Richards.  I have also met several in Europe.  They all [[strikethrough]] come f [[/strikethrough]] tell you the first thing, that they are graduated out of Harvard.