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all of this delightful year over here when last I saw you - how ecstatic I should have been! Truly it has all been far beyond what I hoped for or expected - and I don't believe there will be a 'hitch' to the end.  I have learned so much too - and from Leilie as well as my masters—  Just now I am mourning that I did not paint a 'still life to send to the Salon just to get a ticket as I think it would have been received considering what students' work has been 

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admitted - but I comfort myself with the fact that the frame would have cost as much as tickets.  Leilie is describing the service at Notre Dame this morning, so I'll not repeat, but oh! it was such lovely music.  I went by myself on [[strikethrough]] Thurs [[/strikethrough]] Friday to St. Roch where the music is always so fine - and yesterday we made an expedition out to St. Denis & tried to imagine how Marie Antionnette's [[Antoinette's]] bones looked, inside of one of the coffins (whichever it was), in the vault.  I'll also leave Leilie