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kindly adding an invitation to visit Philadelphia.

This I availed myself of one Sundy [[Sunday]] afternoon not long since, and had the pleasure of meeting several members of your family.

Wm Biddle was with his father at the time.

Still more recently I called upon your cousin, Miss Leavitt, at her 'Lazar Studio', in her Cope, and [[St?]] building, itself an artistic inspiration.
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to find her deeply interested in her work, and making excellent progress.

This probably would apply equally to yourself, as you were well prepared to appreciate and profit by the art and art study of Paris - Should you have decided to enter the Julian Atelier, you will probably find Lefebvre's criticisms the most satisfactory, or at least, the study of his works the most advantageous - I can easily imagine yours 
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Transcription Notes:
Cope = architectural term