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with Virginian pride and spirit - and thinks she could not be coarse.   This is not Miss Haistes idea. She defended her all she could.

I suppose I must realize that 'life grows later' with me though I do feel so young and buoyant, that is as young as I ever did feel.  I have never counted on great things for myself - but nothing that ever phased me palls on me yet - but your word of warning was good for me, though it made me sad.  People do seem to me more interesting than anything else in the world and that is the bottom of my success in heads - but depending on them for all one's happiness is different— And you must remember that art is more like a person than an idea to me - a real friend.

Your ever loving Child.


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Concarneau—
Sunday— Aug 10—

Dear Uncle Will—

I have written my letter this time to B.H. but I send back this letter of yours because you ask me to—  I enjoyed the Atlantic extremely a good deal more of it beside the part you marked.  The evenings are particularly beautiful here, and if I could get up - it would be inspiring perhaps to try to paint them - but I am beginning to feel that if I could get any this in good strong color, and true value, I should be satisfied.  You never saw anything so scientific as The Lasae  It is splendid for a teacher but I'm afraid it will be the ruin of him as a painter—  But we are going to try getting up some morning.  We go to bed so early that we could do it