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ground. There will be a number of them in the Salon this year. I should never care to do one.

This afternoon we went to see Miss Rosalie Gill's Salon picture at Alfred Stevens atelier. Dont [[Don't]] you remember a stunning pastel portrait of hers at the American Artists Exhib at the Met. Museum in N.Y. two years ago? She is a pupil of Chase's. Has a splendid style and is a born painter but her work fell to pieces awfully. Though there were splendid bits in it. It is a portrait of a charming English girl in their pension.  She seemed to have got the values wrong too, as Mr. Horendeu would 



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say. It was'nt true. I liked the atelier. It was perfectly simple but seemed to suggest fine simple painting  It was a sort of reception tea handed around etc. Alfred Stevens himself was there a tall very distinguished man but looks like a swell old roué. I did not meet him. He was evidently delighted with his pupil.

We saw Aunt S. and Constance yesterday. And I read them Aunt Emily's letter. Cecil and all of them had forgotten 'over the ocean wave'. He actually went to the Estés with his mother and C. last Sunday night and we met them there. M'lle going to