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at B.H. I shall have him send it to 4305 by express - and perhaps Uncle Will will take it down to you. I have just had a note from Miss Fanny Lea saying that she had arrived and invited me to go with her to the McCall mission tomorrow afternoon so I am to get there at last. Shall take Mr. Leontman's letter. May is sewing her sateen dress beside me, and says I never remember to give her love and she wants it put in instantly. We are so plagued by our clothes. I have been fixing over my foulard silk myself as I would'nt trust it to one of those French dressmakers. They do very well if you let them buy the stuff and make you a whole out-fit, but deliver us from anything else they try to do. So say May and I, so we drudge along and are nearly finished. By the way I got myself a ready made dark blue calico dress at the Louvre for 2.75 and with a little refitting its quite respectable. Though too cold just now to wear it. It is my only new frock as yet.
   
May and I are working at The Louvre now, and are infatuated with it. I have finished The Infanta Marguerite by Velasquez (one of Mrs. Thouron's) and have begun a superb portrait by Rubens - doing it smaller of course than the original though it is only head and shoulders. May is up on a step-ladder doing a darling little girls head by Van Dyke. and I am greedy for lots of it. Mr. Pèron the gardien of the easels etc. is one kind friend there we have easels and stools etc all furnished by the dear Louvre itself. They give you every chance - why I am sure I dont know. And all for nothing unless you count the 2 fncs I gave Mr. Pèron to begin with. It is so interesting to be there basking

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