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3 Anyway I am assured of a fully [?] good place where the picture [?] can be seen. There was a upent [?] around the school that I got within there [?] as high a vubi [?] as any picture that had passed the jurry [?] and they [?] had got down to C. then. They commenced with O. this year and examined the pictures alphavertically: so you see they had judged quite a lot of them then. 
You see I am not the worst painter in Paris after all and very far from the best. I guess we will come out though if nothing breaks.  The doctor saw [?] Al. the other day and asked him if I sent anything to the [?] sailor [?] and Al said "yes." The doc. asked if there was any chance of its getting in and Al. said it was already in and going to have a good place and the doc. was very much pleased and said "I tell you what you do: you just send me the no. and the name of his picture and I will see that it gets a good notice in the paper": Says he knows some of the [?] cities. Now isn't that good of him darling? Oh: I think I have more friends than I sometimes think I have. By the way what did Gravis [?] mean by saying I was a pleasure [?] on which [?]