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After going though Mrs W.s collection very carefully several times I find [[crossed out]] it was [[/crossed out]] I always [[crossed out]] the same [[/crossed out]] came back to the same four pictures The Dupré. Corot. Diaz. De[[Arrelo?]] and I enjoyed them in the order named. [[crossed out]] Any one of the work adorns [[/crossed out]] They are all four beautiful pictures and I think the first two the best. The color of Miss Diaz did not wear as well as I had expected; there is a bad colored grey in the half tones that becomes rather monotonous after a while: and makes the color not quite as well balanced as I had remembered. The Corot is one of the very best of his. Pictures painted directly from nature: in fact it is one of the most [[deliberately?]] and beautiffuly painted ones I have ever seen. [[crossed out]] I appreciate [[/crossed out]]