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you will all day it looks like Wm Janvier - but we dont. This dont do him justice. He looks older than this in fact is 49. and more rugged and expressive. He has enormous dark grey eyes with the most pathetic - burnt-out expression - which you don't half get here. I bought four photos yesterday Brynellan [[?]], Fleury [[?]], Fromlation [[?]] and Bastien le Page - I am going to send one in each mail and please don't let anything happen to them until i get back. I had rather they would not lie around exposed to the light. Isn't this a long letter!
   Miss Klumpe got the medal for the Grand Concours. And we are all delighted. Blinska's was next - in fact, they gave her a medal too but Klumpe 100 frcs besides. The ruler must be very mad. Mine was [[?]] 'place' as they call it which means something like honorable mention but it was so really bad that I am thankful let it slide unnoticed into obscurity and ony hope the professors didn't know which mine was.
   Good night. It's bed time.
[[Signature illegible]] Jms Lulei [[best guess]]

Transcription Notes:
I couldn't make out three of the four photo names in the first paragraph. I don't know if they are people or place names and didn't have enough to research more.