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sail finally from Antwerp
We want to sail now before the 1st of July - so as to go by winter rates, much cheaper
It will hurry us and I thought I would like to arrange to go home so as to arrive about the end of July so that if Uncle Will was in Marblehead or somewhere he would perhaps be coming down then to take Aunt Emily up - and could meet me and we all have a nice little few days together at Beach Haven—
I don't enjoy the idea of landing with no one oue [[out]] to meet me until I got to 4305 and then only Emma Jones - not even Sandy—

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them to Lasar - he spent an hour nealy [[neatly?]] picking them into inch bits and pointing out the "lines" and various kinds of "business" in the wood cuts he has on the wall—  And finally said "Oh well, do better next time"—  I don't know whether I shall or not - I'm afraid if I was with Lasar long I'd be reduced to a cipher—  He nick names the feeling of great artists, their simple "want it so" or "dont want it so" "Number 18" "rule 15" and boils it all down to reason and calculation—  He sort of parses a composition