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[[right page]] Concarneau Oct 6, [1888] It is Saturday night, my beloveds, but I must write or at least begin without waiting for Sunday. Your letter came this afternoon. I was afraid I should not get it until I got to Paris, as I had sent word to Drexel keep them. Your agreeing to my staying gave me an awful fit of homesickness, and it seemed as if I could'nt. I expected you to say I had better not, and if you had I should have come home even after what I wrote in my last. Now I seem [?] to stay a while longer, but its only a while. Yet when I let myself think of it my spirit is sore vexed within me. All that I was going to tell you that you must keep on sending to Drexel - until further notice Dear Grandma Can you spare me a little while longer you have not written to me for so long. Your own child [[/right page]] [[left page]] gage now - as I certainly do not need any more money at present. Uncle Will you did not tell me not to tell May about the Italian trip, so of course I did. Miss Gale and Miss Boyer have both given out and May and I are going alone - and we are scared, but every one says we wont have any trouble. We are going to leave here Tuesday morning - with Miss Bright and shall stay in Paris a day or two to make some [[?]] for rooms. We should like to find in the Luxembourg quarter a studio and two small rooms. Benjamin would have the studio with me and May & I have one room - Benj the other. May must stay and I think she can on her own account. Of course she could only pay for 1 half our room not at all for the studio. Miss Bright is'nt a hard worker, but she likes to be mixed up with