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Harrison portrait and all. If only you do not make yourself ill. It is not so nice when you are changing place and we do not quite know where you are or what you are going to do next - it makes you seem so far out of reach.—  Aunt Sarah has written me a "strictly private" letter - in which, for my stimulus in Art - she reveals her own departure of last winter, in going to the Art School. I do not see why she should not wish us to know what she was doing. I am very glad she was able to do it. She is very full of sympathy with me because I am not working in Art and wants to help me to do something.=  I'm sure I wish it were open to me - that is that I could see my way clear to some kind of art work. Maybe I shall - but I have fallen out of the running. It is true that I am never really happy unless I am busy at something of the kind - it seems to run in the family. I wonder sometimes if this instinct will develope into something delightful in a future life. Surely it is not created for failure and dissolution alone. Uncle Will has told Grandma that "he had advised you" not to hurry